Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, FLEETWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072028
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, FLEETWOOD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072028
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, FLEETWOOD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, FLEETWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Medlar-with-Wesham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 41762 33024
Details
MEDLAR WITH WESHAM FLEETWOOD ROAD SD 43 SW 9/41 Christ Church - - II
Church, 1893-4, by Paley and Austin, with chancel and steeple 1927. Red brick with pink sandstone dressings, red tiled roof, green slate cladding to spire. Nave with low aisles, chancel under same roof, south-west steeple and attached porch. Decorated style. West gable to road has angle-buttresses, very large 2-centred arched window of 5 full-height lights, parapet with returned end stepped down to nave on north side; 6-bay nave has chamfered sill-band and 2 sandstone bands run into the window surrounds, large 2-centred arched 3-light windows with mouchette tracery in the heads, and moulded surrounds and hoodmoulds of glazed light red brick; low aisles each have two small 2-light windows with rounded lights; short mono-pitch roofed transeptal chapels at east end of nave. Continuation of chancel (1927) in matching style and materials has only an east window: very large, 2-centred arched, 7 lights with mouchette tracery in the head. Square brick 3-stage tower with 2-light belfry louvres is finished with sandstone parapet stepped up at the corners, and carries a small octagonal spire; gabled porch attached on south side of tower has moulded stone doorway, and a stone parapet. Interior: unusual arcade of stone piers alternately lacking capitals, the stone continued above the springing of moulded semi-circular arches in brick; very wide chancel arch designed in the same fashion, but with the inner moulding rising from a corbelled stone shaft; wagon,roof carried on shallow trusses of raised tie-beams with struts and false kingposts.
Listing NGR: SD4176233024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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