Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1073058
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1073058
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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 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
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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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