Church of St Ambrose
CHURCH OF ST AMBROSE, SAWLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072188
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ambrose
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AMBROSE, SAWLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072188
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ambrose
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AMBROSE, SAWLEY 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:
- CHURCH OF ST AMBROSE, SAWLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grindleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 76227 45624
Details
GRINDLETON SAWLEY ROADS SD 74 NE
7/99 Church of St. Ambrose - - II Church, 1805, enlarged 1890s to designs by Paley and Austin which included a steeple and porch which were never executed (church guide). Squared sandstone with slate roof. Comprises a west tower and nave of 1805, a later chancel under a continuous roof, a north aisle with pitched roof, and a south porch partly of timber. The slim west tower has a blank ground floor, a sill band to a lunette west window with plain stone surround, and bell openings which are also lunettes with a continuous sill band. Crude battlements are formed by blocks of stone, with corner pinnacles. The south nave wall is of 3 bays. The windows have plain stone surrounds with a central square mullion branching into a Y under a semi-circular head with impost blocks and an impost band. The door, between bays one and 2, has a plain stone surround under a later C19th timbered porch. The chancel, beyond a buttress with offsets, has one bay towards the south. The window is of 3 lights with a pointed head. The E. window is of 4 lights with pointed head, with segmental heads to the lights and with tracery. The north aisle windows have flat heads and 2 lights each with segmental heads. The west nave window is of 2 lights with reticulated tracery under a flat head. The interior has a 5-bay timber arcade of rectangular chamfered posts braced to an arcade plate. The roof timbers are exposed, the nave having main trusses with a tie beam, a king post rising up to an arch-braced collar, and short queen struts; intermediate trusses have arch-braced collars only. The chancel has double sedilia and a piscina. The east window has late C19th glass figures of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Simple rood with the beam formed of one of the ties.
Listing NGR: SD7622745624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183271
- 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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