OLD CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

OLD CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073080
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: OLD CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: OLD CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073080
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: OLD CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: OLD CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, SCHOOL LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, SCHOOL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Wyre (District Authority)
Parish:: Pilling
National Grid Reference:: SD 40273 48477

Details

SD 44 NW PILLING SCHOOL LANE (off)

3/24 Old Church of St. John Baptist 17.4.1967 (Previously listed as Old Church of GV II* St.John Baptist ,now used as mortuary chapel)

Church, 1717 with early C19th alterations. Squared red sandstone, rendered on N., E., and W. sides, with plinth, chamfered quoins, and other dressings of grey sandstone. Slate roof. South wall of 5 bays. Windows have plain stone surrounds with semi-circular heads, keystones and impost blocks, and a central chamfered mullion. The west bay has a similar shorter window over the door, with no mullion and of a redder stone. The door has a plain stone surround with semi-circular head, imposts carved with crute Ionic volutes, and a keystone inscribed "1717". Above is a sandstone sundial plaque inscribed "Thus ETERNITY approacheth. G. Holden 1766". The east window is similar to those on the south, but with 2 chamfered mullions. The west gable has a bellcote with segmental coping, probably early C19th. The north wall is of 5 bays, probably altered in early C19th when the gallery was inserted. The lower windows have rebated and chamfered jambs and flat lintels of red sandstone. Above are lunette windows with plain stone surrounds and keystones. Interior has a flat plaster ceiling, and an early C.19th gallery on the north and west sides supported on timber Tuscan columns and with a front of raised panels in grained timber. Fixed oak benches, with a simple plank for seat and back, appear to be original. At the north-east side are 3 box pews of raised panels, one with "17 IA 19" inscribed on the door. A 2-decker pulpit has similar panelling. At the north-west of the church are 2 box pews of grained timber. The communion table is enclosed by railings with turned balusters. The C18th sandstone font is in the shape of an urn. Replaced by the new Church of St. John (q.v.) in 1887, this is an unusual survival of a small Georgian church.

Listing NGR: SD4027348477

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Legacy System number:: 185036
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.