Church of St Saviour
CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074104
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074104
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, CHURCH ROAD
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 SAVIOUR, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 56543 25012
Details
SD 52NE WALTON LE DALE CHURCH ROAD
5/118 Church of St. Saviour - GV II
Church, 1817 by Edmund Sharpe,with transepts and chancel 1886 by T.H. Myres. Stone, slate roof with red ridge tiles. Tower with spire; nave with transepts; apsidal chancel. Romanesque style: lesenes, Lombard frieze, round-headed lancets. Tower of 3 elements (2-stage square base, 2-stage octagonal drum, octagonal spire) with circular window at ground floor and 3 lancets above, a band and frieze to the drum which has a recessed belfry louvre in each face, and a splayed base to the spire. Nave now of 5 bays, the 1st on the west side with a segmental headed door and all others with round-headed lancets; rainwater heads dated 1817. Transepts have bands on 2 levels, the upper rising as a hoodmould to the heads of two pairs of round headed windows, above which is a large wheel window; west transept has a doorway in the re-entrant, east transept has a squire's door in Norman style; rainwater heads dated 1886. Semi- circular apse with moulded bands, the upper rising as a hoodmould to 9 round headed windows; apse wall incorporates 3 foundation stones laid by Mrs. Townley Parker, the Right Hon. Viscount Cranbourne, and Mrs. G.B. Dewhurst of Oughtrington Park, all dated 17 July, 1886. Interior: at south end is a glazed screen and a large gallery supported by 2 iron columns with foliated surfaces, the front panelled, with Royal Arms in centre; unusual double transept arches rising from a central shafted column with foliated capital, the outer ends dying at a high level; ribbed chancel ceiling; east transept has various wall tablets to Townley Parker family.
Listing NGR: SD5654325012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358023
- 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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