CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1073414
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1073414
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET

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 BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Pendle (District Authority)
Parish:: Colne
National Grid Reference:: SD8889740125

Details

SD 84 SE COLNE CHURCH STREET (north side)

7/85 Church of St Bartholomew

GV I Church. Mainly early C16. Nave, chancel, lean-to south aisle and double north aisle under M roof, west tower. Tower has moulded plinth, and offset angle buttresses to western corners. Pointed arched west door and 3-light window above, flanked by 4 shields. 3-light pointed transomed belfry windows. Square south east stair turret and oversailing embattled parapet. South aisle has straight-headed windows of 4 arched lights with hoodmoulds, 3-light clerestory windows. The last bay of the nave aisle has a large pointed 3-light window under a gable. East window of 5 lights with rectilinear tracery. North aisle has uncusped tracery to various 3- and 2-light windows, and a pointed 4-light window to gabled organ-loft. South porch is gabled and embattled with large cubical sundial on apex. It protects a doorway with pointed head and quarter-round moulded surround, probably C14, and 3 tombstones now attached to the wall, including that of Richard Horsfall of Malsis d.1644. Semi-circular mounting block attached to porch. Interior: Nave has north arcade of early C13, 4 bays with round columns and semi-circular responds. South arcade on octagonal columns. Double-chamfered chancel arch. Nave roof of 6 bays, alternating moulded tie-beam trusses and arch-braced collars, all with collars braced to ridge, and small cusped wind braces. Chancel roof of 5 bays elaborates this pattern, with the arched braces rising from short hammer-beams. 3-bay chancel arcade on octagonal columns. Two north aisles have arch-braced collar roofs. Concave-sides early C16 octagonal font with symbols of Passion and initials LT (Laurence Townley). Good late C19 pews, chancel and parclose screens, pulpit, the chancel aisle screens being C16. Wall monuments to Christopher and John Emmott, 1746, a scrolled tablet surmounted by a bust and a medallion, and Richard Emmott, 1761, a putto holding a shield.

Listing NGR: SD8889740125

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Legacy System number:: 186226
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.