Lytham United Reformed Church, With Attached Garden Wall and Gate Piers

LYTHAM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BANNISTER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196393
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:
Lytham United Reformed Church, With Attached Garden Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
LYTHAM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BANNISTER STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196393
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:
Lytham United Reformed Church, With Attached Garden Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
LYTHAM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BANNISTER STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LYTHAM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BANNISTER STREET

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:
Lytham
National Grid Reference:
SD 36817 27298

Details

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SE BANNISTER STREET, Lytham 621-1/6/9 (West side) Lytham United Reformed Church, with attached garden wall and gate piers

II

Congregational church, now United Reformed church. 1861-2, by W.F.Poulton of Reading; with addition at north end dated 1910. Rock faced yellow sandstone with some red sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roofs with fishscale bands and cockscomb ridges. Rectangular plan on north-south axis parallel to street, with gabled entrance front to south incorporating spire at south-east corner. The south front has a large 2-centred arched 5-light traceried window; to the left, a gabled porch with a 2-centred arched doorway which has a moulded surround including a nailhead band to the head and a polychrome extrados band (the ends intersecting and run out to the gable coping); to the right, a slender buttressed tower which has a similar doorway in the front (to the gallery staircase) and another in the right-hand side (to the church), and an elongated and steeply-weathered 2nd stage which has a narrow lancet and is tapered to an octagonal section, forming the base of the spire which is surrounded by an arcade of cusped lancets under steep gablets. The east side has 5 narrow bays divided by full-height buttresses, with a lancet window in each bay; and a corbel table to the eaves. The roof has very small lead-clad gablets in the slope. The addition at the north end (containing vestries and a meeting room) is single-storeyed, 5 bays (the 5th set back), and has a porch in the 3rd bay which has a segmental-headed doorway with Perpendicular tracery in the overlight and a gable lettered "1910", and square-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery (3, 2, 2 and 2 lights); and its north gable wall has a large canted bay window of 1, 3 and 1 traceried lights, all these windows with stained glass in debased Art Nouveau style. INTERIOR: gallery at south end, apsidal organ gallery at north end, arch-braced roof, and original numbered benches with brass umbrella brackets. Garden wall, attached to south-east corner of church and returned along North Clifton Street where it links with the former Sunday School, with canted corner gateway: low wall with chamfered coping (former railings missing), Gothic gatepiers at the corner. Included as part of complete set.

Listing NGR: SD3681727298

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Legacy System number:
385231
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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