Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164259
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164259
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH 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 ST MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Weeton-with-Preese
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 38460 34103
Details
WEETON WITH PREESE CHURCH ROAD SD 33 SE Church of St.Michael 8/77 - - II
Church, 1842, enlarged 1851 (Pevsner). Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof with bellcote at west gable. Nave with north porch, chancel with south vestry. Very simple Early English style. Buttressed 4-bay nave has coupled lancets in each bay except 3rd which has gabled porch with 2-centred arch; stepped triple lancet west window (entrance to basement boiler room below). Slightly lower chancel,of one bay has similar windows, and small gabled vestry on south side. Interior: arch-braced and strutted kingpost roof of stout timbers; original pews with numbered doors; wooden minister's desk and pulpit in matching style with simple Gothic traceried panels; west end, which is raised over basement, has similar panelled rail and a small square organ (by T. and C. Lane, Earl Shilton, Leics.); on south wall a framed parchment records the laying of the foundation stone "of this church erected by public subscription on a site granted by the Earl of Derby", on September 29th 1842, by Thomas Clifton Esq., of Lytham Hall; and there is a decorated brass memorial tablet in memory of the 15th Earl of Derby erected "by the servants employed on his North Lancashire Estates 1893"; flanking east window are painted commandment tables. Listed as apparently little-altered example of its type and period.
Listing NGR: SD3846034103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183647
- 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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