Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, RICHMOND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072758
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, RICHMOND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072758
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, RICHMOND 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 PETER, RICHMOND STREET
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 75362 28143
Details
ACCRINGTON RICHMOND STREET SD 72 NE Church of St. Peter 5/28 - - II
Church, 1886-9, by Henry Ross of Accrington. Sandstone, steeply- pitched slate roof. Nave and chancel under one roof, the junction distinguished by a gabled bellcote with a fleche; low aisles with gabled porches and cross roofs to chancel chapels. Detail mainly Geometrical. Gables flanked by deep buttresses which at west end carry above eaves to gablets and at east end have offsets; west window of 4 lights east window of 5 lights, each surmounted by a loft window and gable cross. Six-bay nave, with shallow buttresses to alternate bays, deeper buttresses to aisles; nave has arched 2-light windows, aisles have perpendicular-shaped windows with tracery; nave and chancel divided by plain buttresses which break through the eaves to gablets. Second bay of each aisle has low gabled porch with emphatic detail: moulded arch, gableted buttresses, prominent gable coping rising to a cross. Interior: nave arcade of alternately cylindrical and octagonal columns with foliated caps, double-chamfered arches; high moulded chancel arch; deeply-splayed reveals to clerestory windows; wagon roof with king posts and struts rising from an arch-braced tie- beam, the wall-posts supported by corbelled stone shafts.
Listing NGR: SD7536228143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183825
- 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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