CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073081
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SCHOOL LANE

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Date:: 2002-07-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073081
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE 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:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE 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 40305 48626

Details

SD 44 NW PILLING SCHOOL LANE

3/25 Church of St. John the Baptist 17.4.1967 (Previously listed as Church of St. GV II* John Baptist)

Church, 1886-7 by Paley and Austin. Snecked sandstone rubble with slate roof. Comprises a west tower with recessed spire, a nave with clearstorey and aisles, a chancel, south porch, north transeptal vestry and south organ chamber. The west tower has angle buttresses and a parapet with flushwork band, the infill being of red sandstone, a motif continued around the nave and chancel at clearstorey level. The bell openings are of 2 lights and have pointed heads with tracery. The west window is of 8 lights, having a pointed head with tracery. The south porch has diagonal buttresses and an upper storey with 2-light window and chequerboard pattern in flushwork. The door is moulded with a pointed head. The aisle windows are of 3 lights with flat heads, ogee heads to the lights, and tracery of various types. The east window is of 5 lights with free Perpendicular tracery. Interior has exposed sandstone masonry. The 5-bay nave arcades have octagonal piers with concave sides and moulded pointed arches. The chancel has one arch to the north and 2 to the south. The chancel arch is high, with a moulding dying into the responds. Arched buttresses span the aisles. The tower arch is also tall and moulded. The inner window arches to aisles and clearstorey are moulded. The open timber roof has raised tie beams, collars, and queen posts, with baluster infill on the outer sides of the queen posts. In the chancel are double sedilia with ogee heads and carved decoration. On the north side is a piscina. The east and west windows have late C19th glass. The north aisle glass is C20th. A fine example of the late Gothic Revival church with much originality in detail.

Listing NGR: SD4030548626

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Legacy System number:: 185037
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.