CHURCH OF ST WILFRID

CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1147451
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST WILFRID
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1147451
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST WILFRID
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST WILFRID, 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 WILFRID, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Ribchester
National Grid Reference:: SD 64983 35019

Details

SD 63 NW 7/134

RIBCHESTER CHURCH STREET Church of St. Wilfrid

11.11.66

GV I Church, C13 with later additions, restored 1881 and after a fire in 1917. Sandstone rubble with stone slate roof. Comprises a west tower, nave, lower chancel, south nave aisle, south porch and a north chapel under a pitched roof.

The tower, said to be late C15 (VCH), is of three stages with angle buttresses and battlements. The bell openings are of three lights with hoods and with panel tracery to their heads. The west wall has a similar window above the doorway, which has a two-centred head and a moulding similar to that of the south porch door. The south aisle windows are C16 with round heads to the lights. Above two crude dormers light the nave. The south porch door, said to be C14, has a hood and moulded imposts. The inner door is C13, having a two-centred arch of two moulded orders and outer shafts with moulded bases and moulded capitals with nailhead ornament. The north nave wall has a blocked doorway with moulded impost. The north wall of the north chapel has a three-light window with straight head and ogee heads to the lights. To its right is a lancet, probably re-used. The west chapel window has reticulated tracery, the east window flowing tracery. The south chancel wall has a chamfered doorway with two-centred head and a hood with head stops. To its left is a restored window with mullion, transom and trefoil. To its right are two lancets, with a restored window of geometric tracery between them. The east wall has triple stepped lancets, partly restored.

Interior. The south arcade is of four bays with arches of two chamfered orders and octagonal piers. The north arcade is of two bays with arches of two chamfered orders, a pier of three clustered shafts with moulded cap, and ½-round responds with moulded cap and base. The chancel arch also has ½-round responds. The north chancel wall has a chamfered squint, now opening to the outside. The south wall has triple sedilia and a piscina with two bowls, all inserted and with round heads. The chancel roof has alternate arch-braced collar trusses and trusses with collars and ties. The nave roof, said to be dated 1527 on a wall plate (VCH), has arch-braced collars, the end trusses having raking queen struts and a king strut between collar and tie. The west gallery of 1736 is supported on four stone Tuscan columns said to be Roman. The sandstone font is octagonal with slim corner buttresses. The octagonal timber pulpit has carved decoration and is dated '1636 CH'. In the east bay of the south arcade the Hoghton Quire is enclosed by a restored C16 oak screen. The north chapel, or Dutton Quire, has in its east window fragments of glass said to be C14. The roof is of crown post construction, unusual in the north-west, having a cambered tie, rafters with collars and soulaces, and a collar plate.

Listing NGR: SD6498435019

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 183020
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1912)

Legal

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