Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072061
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072061
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Balderstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 63141 32309
Details
BALDERSTONE SD 63 SW Church of St.Leonard 4/1 - GV II
Church, 1852-4 by Rampling of Preston (Pevsner), with tower added 1906. Sandstone rubble with slate roof. Comprises a nave with lower chancel, tower at the west end of the north side of the nave, north organ chamber, and a lower gabled projection on the south side. The west window is of 3 lights with flowing tracery under a pointed head. Below it is a low semi-octagonal buttressed projection with parapet. This houses the font and has windows on 3 sides. The nave is of 3 bays on the north side and 4 on the south, all separated by buttresses. The windows are of 2 trefoiled lights under pointed heads with Geometric tracery. On each side there are 2 small timber dormers. The tower has diagonal buttresses and incorporates a porch in its lower stage. It has a stone spire set back behind a parapet, and bell openings of 2 trefoiled lights under a pointed head with trefoil. The doorway has a moulded pointed arch. The east window is of 5 lights with Geometric tracery under a pointed head. Inside, the nave has a steeply-pitched open timber roof. The 3 trusses have curved braces to high collars which support king posts. They are tied at wallplate level by iron rods. To the left of the pointed chancel arch is a dressed sandstone opening resembling a window, the 2 trefoiled lights containing organ pipes. The windows contain some glass of later C19 date.
Listing NGR: SD6314132309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183486
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969)
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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