Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163042
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06416/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163042
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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 PETER, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Darwen
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 69432 22223
Details
SD 62 SE DARWEN CHURCH STRESS
4/16 Church of St. Peter
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GV II*
Church, formerly dedicated to the Holy Trinity, 1827-9, by
Rickman and Hutchinson. Fine sandstone, slate roof of low pitch,
hipped over east end. West tower, nave and sanctuary in one, north
and south aisles with porches. Perpendicular style. Three-stage
tower has set-back buttresses with scrolled weatherings, short
extensions to 1st stage on north and south sides with diagonal
buttresses, a diagonal stair turret piercing the buttress on the
north west corner, moulded string courses on 2 levels, an arched
west doorway under a square hoodmould, above this a flat-headed
cinquefoil window recessed with hollowed surround, arched 5-light
belfry louvres with Perpendicular tracery and similarly hollowed
surrounds, and battlements with 8 flat-topped pinnacles. Very regular
7-bay nave and aisles, both with plain parapets, windows with hoodmoulds:
clerestory has flat-headed windows of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights; aisles
have buttresses with scrolled weatherings, transomed windows of 2
cinquefoil lights with Perpendicular tracery in the Tudor-arched heads,
and in the 2nd bay embattled gabled porches (that on the north side with
side entrance). Three-sided apsidal east end has 3 windows like those
of the aisles. Vestry at east end of north side. Interior: 7-bay
Perpendicular arcade carried on piers with cyma moulding continued in
the arches. Slim shafts on the nave side of the columns formerly
continued in plaster through the clerestory to corbels of beams of flat
ceiling, but all interior plaster now removed; galleries on three sides,
ground floor at west end now partitioned (with panelling formerly in
church of St. George). Central chancel window by Shrigley and Hunt 1896.
War Memorial reredos and tablet 1923.
Listing NGR: SD6943222223
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184687
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 29 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/192317
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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