Church of St Barnabas
CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164163
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164163
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
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 BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heapey
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 60191 20510
Details
HEAPEY CHURCH LANE SD 62 SW 6/112 Church of St. Barnabas - GV II
Church. Said to have been rebuilt 1740, enlarged in 1828, partly rebuilt again 1865 (date of transepts and chancel); nave probably early C19, retaining some C18 fabric, re-roofed 1865. Watershot coursed sandstone, slate roof with patterned bands. Nave with north and south transepts, chancel. Large and lofty nave in simple Georgian style, with added buttresses and porch, wide full-height transepts in simple Gothic style, low chancel matching these. Nave divided into 5 bays by full-height 3-stage buttresses which do not match the spacing of the windows; in each bay (but mostly off-centre) a very large round-headed window in plain surround with prominent keystone, and 2 chamfered mullions and transoms making 9 lights diminishing in the height; 2nd bay on north side has a gabled porch with arched doorway moulded in 3 orders, the window here reduced to a lunette above the porch; 3rd bay on south side has a square sundial mounted to the left of the head of the window (and shaded by the buttress to its left) inscribed "Roger Hargreaves & Rich.Whittle . CHAPEL WARDENS Dom 1826" West gable has diagonal buttresses, 3 round-headed 2-light windows with Y-tracery, imposts and keystones, the outer windows smaller than the central one, a straight dripstone in the centre at eaves level, over this a circular window containing 5 trefoils, with an archivolt, and a trefoil in the gable above, with a band arched over it. Transepts have large pointed-arched 2-light windows with traceried heads: one in the sides, and 2 in the gables linked at the heads by a band, above which is a wheel window; north transept has a central door like that in the porch. Chancel has one 2-light window in each side, with tracery matching those in the transepts, and a traceried 3-light east window. Interior: arch-braced hammerbeam roof with curved struts; very lofty arch between nave and crossing of transepts supported by slender chamfered piers with moulded caps, exceptionally small side arches springing from these and dying into the corners of the nave, with moulded respond-caps; lower chancel arch in matching style: whole interior suggests radical remodelling of formerly-galleried church. Reference: VCH Lancs VI p.51; Pevsner; Hewitson Our Country Churches and Chapels (1872) p.570-4
Listing NGR: SD6019120510
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184365
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewitson, A, Our Country Churches and Chapels, (1872), 570-574
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 51
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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