Church of St Augustine (of Hippo)
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (OF HIPPO), BOLTON AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072745
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine (of Hippo)
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (OF HIPPO), BOLTON AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072745
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine (of Hippo)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE (OF HIPPO), BOLTON AVENUE
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 AUGUSTINE (OF HIPPO), BOLTON AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Hyndburn (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 77160 30001
Details
ACCRINGTON BOLTON AVENUE SD 72 NE HUNCOAT 5/7 Church of St. Augustine (of Hippo) - - II
Church, 1908-9, by Cunliffe of Grimshaw and Cunliffe. Snecked sandstone, banded slate roof. Nave, chancel with transepts (organ house and Lady Chapel), north-west tower and single-storey baptistry at west end. In Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. Three-stage tower has a weathered 1st stage which is the porch, with moulded arched doorway on north side (door has Viking-style decorative ironwork), and window with mouchette tracery on west side, the dripmould over these carried across the baptistry, where it steps over windows of 2, 3 and 2 lights. Upper stages of tower have diagonal buttresses, 2-tier lancets, 5-light belfry louvres and pyramidal roof. Buttressed 3-bay nave has steeply-pitched roof swept over low side wall containing six 3-light windows alternately stepped and flat-headed, a dripmould stepping over them. South transept has a wheel window, chancel has 4-light east window with Perpendicular tracery in the head; other windows at east end cusped, some coupled. Low vestry attached to north transept. Interior: ashlar; nave has 5 elaborately-braced trusses to roof with flat ceiling in the centre, and at west end a 2-bay arcade to baptistry; at east end Tudor-arched openings flank a wide moulded arch to the chancel, which has an arch-braced roof with flat ceiling in centre, a wide Tudor-arched and moulded opening to the organ chamber, and a 2-bay arcade to the Lady Chapel (this has a 2-tier arch-braced roof truss).
Listing NGR: SD7716030001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183803
- 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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