CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, WHITWORTH RAKE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164533
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, WHITWORTH RAKE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164533
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, WHITWORTH RAKE

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 BARTHOLOMEW, WHITWORTH RAKE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:: Whitworth
National Grid Reference:: SD 88791 17641

Details

WHITWORTH

255/11/259 WHITWORTH RAKE 29-JUL-1966 CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

II Church. 1847-50. By J. Clarke. Seriously damaged by fire and rebuilt in much reduced form by the Buttress Fuller Geoffrey Alsop Partnership in 1988. The only parts of the building to remain substantially intact were the embattled west front and west tower, the aisle walls and the arcades. The walls are of sandstone rubble and the roof slate. The 4-stage tower has a polygonal stair turret finishing above the eaves with grotesques and battlements, diagonal buttresses with flint and brick panels, bands at all levels; arched doorway on south side in square headed surround with hoodmould, at 2nd and 3rd stages rectangular lancets with tracery and hoodmoulds, and transomed 3-light belfry louvres with tracery in the heads. West end has doorway with 2 orders, spandrels with carvings of lamb and bird, square-topped surround and hoodmould; 6-light west window with Perpendicular tracery; west end of north aisle has transomed 3-light window. The nave and aisles have been rebuilt to a square 4-bay plan with the tower occupying the south west corner. INTERIOR. Some of the grotesques and other carvings (said to be by a Mr Egglesmere who was deaf and dumb) were salvaged from the fire and now act as corbels inside the church. The reredos, designed by Walter Tapper in 1922, was acquired from Christ Church, Cotmanhay, in Derbyshire, after the fire. The church's tower and west front still form an immensely impressive group at the top of the steep path leading to the west door.

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Listing NGR: SD8879117641

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Legacy System number:: 185838
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fishwick, H, History of Rochdale, (1889), 169-170

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