Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, SAWLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163617
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, SAWLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163617
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, SAWLEY ROAD
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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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, SAWLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chatburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 76992 44277
Details
SD 74 SE CHATBURN SAWLEY ROAD
7/5 Christ Church - - II
Church, 1838, by Edmund Sharpe, with aisles and chancel added 1882 by F. Robinson (Pevsner). Squared limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings, and slate roof. Romanesque style, with additions in keeping. Comprises a west tower with spire, a nave with south porch, 3 transeptal gables on north and south sides forming aisles, and a lower chancel with semi- circular apse. The tower is of 3 stages broached to a spire of sandstone ashlar. The lower stage has 2 blank arches on each side, with 2 round- headed windows on the west side. The upper stages each have 2 similar openings on each side, separated by pilaster strips and with Lombard friezes. The bays of the main church are separated by pilaster strips and have Lombard friezes. The nave, of 2 bays on the north side and with one bay to the west of the porch on the south side, has tall windows with splayed limestone reveals and round heads. Each aisle bay has similar windows, paired with a single pierced quatrefoil above and under a semi-circular relieving arch. A plaque in the wall of the apse records that the chancel was built in memory of Robert Ingram, d.1879. Interior. The 3-bay nave arcades have semi-circular arches, banded round columns, and foliated capitals and responds. The moulded round chancel arch is carried on short corbelled shafts with foliated capitals. Below are piers with angle shafts, from which spring flanking arches opening into the organ chamber and the south chapel. An inscribed band in the south aisle wall records that the church was enlarged in 1882. At the west end is a gallery with timber front. The roof is carried on arch- braced trusses. The windows contain glass of various late C19th dates.
Listing NGR: SD7699244277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North 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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