Rivington Church
Rivington Church, Horrobin Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164938
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rivington Church
- Statutory Address:
- Rivington Church, Horrobin Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164938
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rivington Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rivington Church, Horrobin Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- Rivington Church, Horrobin Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rivington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62498 14442
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 December 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SD 61 SW
14/177
RIVINGTON
HORROBIN LANE
Rivington Church
(Formerly listed as Church of the Holy Trinity, previously listed as Rivington Church)
17.4.67
II
Parish church. Probably 1666 rebuild of early C16 chapel, altered and restored in late C19. Irregularly coursed sandstone with large quoins, slate roof. Nave with south porch and north vestry, chancel. Small plain building with three square-headed three-light windows on each side, the lights on the south side round-headed and those on the north side square-headed, C19 gabled porch between the centre and western windows on the south side, modern vestry in equivalent position on north side. West gable wall has a wide elliptical-headed doorway, and an octagonal bell turret with square base partly corbelled out and a conical roof with tall weathervane. Chancel has a window of three round-headed lights in each side and a segmental-headed east window of five lights with a transom.
Interior: roof of four collar trusses with bracing to tie-beams and collars; oak screen with some parts late medieval; late C16 oak octagonal pulpit on a stem, with two linen-fold panels in each side; on north wall a genealogical painting copied in 1835 from a copy of 1821 of a C16 original relating to the Pilkington family (which was damaged by fire in 1834); C18 brass chandelier with fluted body and two tiers of arms.
History: chapel of ease built in late C15 rebuilt or restored by Richard Pilkington c.1540 (Pilkington family held Rivington as tenants-in-chief of Duchy of Lancaster, built Rivington Hall, q.v.)
Reference VCH Lancs V, pp.286-293.
Listing NGR: SD6249814442
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184431
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 286-293
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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