Ansdell Baptist Church
ANSDELL BAPTIST CHURCH, ANSDELL ROAD NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196390
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ansdell Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- ANSDELL BAPTIST CHURCH, ANSDELL ROAD NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196390
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ansdell Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANSDELL BAPTIST CHURCH, ANSDELL ROAD NORTH
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:
- ANSDELL BAPTIST CHURCH, ANSDELL ROAD NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ansdell
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 34986 27746
Details
SD 32 NW; 621-1/2/1
LYTHAM ST ANNES,
ANSDELL,
ANSDELL ROAD NORTH, (east side),
Ansdell Baptist Church
II
Baptist church. Dated 1908 over west doorway.
Accrington brick in stretcher bond, with sandstone dressings
and graduated Cumbrian slate roof with red ridge tiles.
Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style.
Nave on north-south axis, with east and west transepts,
north-west tower, narthex at north end and apse at south end.
The 3-bay nave (the 3rd bay canted out to form a diagonal
junction with the transept) has buttresses, weathered stone
coping to the plinth, a broad band segmentally-arched over the
windows, a thin moulded cornice and a parapet swept up to
upstands between the bays; and segmental-headed 3-light
windows with arched centre lights, transomed outer lights and
arcaded tracery in the heads.
The north gable has a large segmental-headed 3-light "west"
window with stylised tracery and a hoodmould with Art Nouveau
whiplash returned ends, and below this the flat-roofed narthex
has a segmental-headed doorway at the west end and a parapet
with a carved stone plaque dated 1908.
The tower at the east end of the narthex, of three stages with
straight diagonal buttresses carried up above the parapet, has
a north doorway (up 5 steps) with an elaborate stone surround
including a gable breaking through an arcaded parapet, and a
belfry stage with coupled glazed windows and a high parapet
with a triangular shaft rising through an upstand in the
centre of each side.
Each transept has two windows like those of the nave, a large
oculus above these with geometrical tracery, and stepped gable
coping with apex cross.
INTERIOR: hammer-beam roof; stained glass in contemporary
debased Art Nouveau style; original numbered benches;
Gothic-style dais and desk; 2-centred arched organ loft in
apse (which contains meeting room at ground floor beneath
this).
Listing NGR: SD3498627746
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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