Church of Our Lady
CHURCH OF OUR LADY, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147435
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147435
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY, PRESTON 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 OUR LADY, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Longridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 59723 34885
Details
SD 53 SE LONGRIDGE PRESTON ROAD
10/129 Church of Our Lady
II
Roman Catholic Church, 1856 by I. & C. Hansom (Pevsner). Rock-faced sandstone with steep slate roof. Comprises a seven-bay nave and one-bay chancel with continuous steep slate roof. The bays are separated by buttresses with offsets. The nave windows are of 2 pointed lights with a quatrefoil over. The chancel is lit by 2 narrow windows with cusped lights and a trefoil. The entrance is in the 6th bay from the east, through a doorway with moulded surround and 2-centred head. In the east wall is a window with geometrical tracery. The west wall has diagonal buttresses, with a central buttress with offsets partly supporting an open octagonal bellcote on a square base with an octagonal pointed stone cap. Inside there is a west gallery of pitch pine with organ, a chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders, a carved stone reredos, and an open timber roof with very slender scissor-braced trusses. The glass in the east window is said to be by Hardman (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SD5972334885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183015
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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