Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School
TUNLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, MOSSY LEA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073016
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- TUNLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, MOSSY LEA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073016
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUNLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, MOSSY LEA ROAD
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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:
- TUNLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, MOSSY LEA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrightington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 53838 12411
Details
WRIGHTINGTON MOSSY LEA ROAD (off) SD 51 SW 5/107 Tunley Presbyterian Church and Sunday School 4-10-1972 II
Presbyterian church and sunday school. 1691 and 1880. Restored 1897. Coursed sandstone rubble. Church has stone slate roof. North and south walls each of 3 bays. Windows are of 4 lights with leaded glazing, stone hoods, plastered surrounds, and recessed plastered mullions. The western windows on the north and south sides are probably additions: below the southern one there is evidence for a blocked doorway. Above the west gable is an open timber bellcote. Against the west wall is a single- storey porch added in 1971. Adjoining to the east is the schoolroom, with a Welsh slate roof running at right angles to the main roof. Its south gable wall has a window with plain reveals, and a similar doorway to its left. Above the window is a stone inscribed: 'Erected in 1691. Rebuilt in AD 1880...'. Interior: the 2 roof trusses have ovolo-moulded tie-beams, and raking struts now boxed with pine. Attached to a pew end is part of an original pew dated '1691'. Mackay, W.G., A History of the Tunley Congregation and Church, c1980.
Listing NGR: SD5383812411
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357884
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mackay, W G, A History of the Tunley Congregation and Church, (1980)
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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