CHRIST CHURCH
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203609
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Feb-1984
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charnock Richard
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 55315 15782
Details
SD 51 NE CHARNOCK RICHARD CHURCH LANE
5/17 Christ Church
(Formerly listed as Church of Christ)
17.4.1967 II
Church, 1856-60, by Harrison of Wigan. Sandstone rubble, roof of
hexagonal slates in bands of blue and purple. West tower, nave, chancel
with polygonal apse. In mixed style: forms of c.1200 with late
Perpendicular details. Narrow 4-stage battlemented tower with diagonal
buttresses (crocketed gablets at 1st stage), deeply moulded Tudor-arched
west doorway with decorated spandrels, transomed 3-light west window in
moulded 2-centred arch with hoodmould; dripstone band; 3 moulded circular
clockfaces; 4 transomed 2-light belfry louvres; very prominent gargoyles
at the corners, Buttressed 5 bay nave with gabled porch to 2nd bay and
3-light windows in Perpendicular style; chancel has 2 similar windows and
coping pierced by mouchettes; 5-sided buttressed apse has transomed 2-light
windows with cinque-foils in the heads and a battlemented coping.
Interior: scissor-braced hammerbeam roof; dado of apse has Commandment
(etc) tables of glazed polychrome tiles; monumental effigy in white marble
of Mrs. Frances Darlington (d. 1897)by J. Nesfield Forsyth, 1903. History:
built by James Darlington, J.P.,D.C., coal mine proprietor.
Listing NGR: SD5531515782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357532
- 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.
End of official listing
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