Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGE'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1072441
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGE'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1072441
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGE'S STREET
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 GEORGE, ST GEORGE'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58509 17474
Details
SD 51 NE CHORLEY ST. GEORGE'S STREET
5/67 21.12.1966 Church of St. George
GV II*
Church, 1822-25, by Thomas Rickman. Ashlar, with slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel in one, north and south aisles; in Early English Style. Four stage battlemented tower with small angle buttresses; like all the buttresses on the building these are persistently chamfered, and end in octagonal pinnacles. Arched west doorway under a crocketed gable; tall lancet with hoodmould; clockfaces on 3 sides of short 3rd stage; belfry with arcades of 3 tall lancets (the outer ones blind). Seven-bay nave and aisles; aisles have vertically-emphasised bays of coupled lancets with stopped hoodmoulds, separated by buttresses ending in pinnacles above a plain coping; nave has horizontal emphasis with clerestorey of evenly- spaced lancets (2 to each bay), the hoodmoulds linked by a band carried across vestigial buttresses which terminate below the cornice of a battlemented parapet. East window of 5 stepped lights. Interior: moulded 2-centred arches on piers with attached shafts which have moulded caps; deeply splayed tower arch with tracery and stained glass; all ceilings are flat, but supported by flying ribs, simply in the aisles, but of hammerbeam construction in the nave with sexfoil spandrels, every other frame standing on wall shafts; gallery of arcaded panels at west end and inside each aisle, supported by very slim iron shafts and cusped multifoil segmental arches. Baptistery at west end of north aisle has white marble angel carrying a scalloped bowl (said to be copied from Thorwaldsen); elaborately sculpted octagonal pulpit by Thomas Rawcliffe of Chorley; parts of original box pews now form wainscot to aisle walls. A Commissioners' church which cost £12,387(Pevsner). An impressive and characteristic Rickman design.
Listing NGR: SD5850917474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357583
- 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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