CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1073058
Date first listed: 11-Nov-1966
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH AVENUE
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Lancashire
District: South Ribble (District Authority)
Parish: Penwortham
National Grid Reference: SD 52400 29001
Summary
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History
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Details
SD 52NW PENWORTHAM CHURCH AVENUE
4/76 Church of St. Mary
11.11.1966
GV II*
Church: west tower C15, nave with low aisles by E.G. Paley 1855,
chancel C14. Stone, slate roof. Battlemented tower with diagonal
buttresses; west doorway with moulded arch and hoodmould; moulded
dripstone band (west front only) from which rises an arched 3-light 1st
floor window with perpendicular tracery and hoodmould; above this is an
ogee-headed niche with crocketed pinnacles, and at top level on all
sides arched and traceried 2-light belfry louvres with hoodmoulds;
battlemented coping with pinnacles. Nave has on each side 5 arched
2-light windows with curvilinear tracery. Aisles, which are buttressed
at the corners, have windows with varied forms of tracery; prominent
gabled porch with moulded arch at 2nd bay of south aisle. Low chancel
of coursed rectangular blocks has angle buttresses, arched windows with
simple cusped tracery, one other window on north side which is roughly
square and has cusped jambs and head; and a narrow arched priest's
door in south wall (now blocked) with a datestone above it lettered in
relief F
I A
1653
(said to be initials of John and Anne Fleetwood). Interior: nave
arcade of 4 bays, columns alternately round and octagonal with moulded
capitals; depressed kingpost roof, arch-braced chancel roof. Font,
dated 1667, square with chamfered corners, on square pillar. Various
memorial tablets of Rawstorne family; one in south aisle, dated 1863,
to John Horrocks (d.1804;q.v.); another in chancel, to Christopher
Musgrave of Edenfield, Cumbria, (d.1735) of black slate with Arms in
the head. Fragments of early stained glass in chancel windows.
Listing NGR: SD5240029001
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 357981
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.
End of official listing