Nos. 1-5 Frances Darlington Court With Chapel and Wash House
1-5, FRANCES DARLINGTON COURT, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203632
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 1-5 Frances Darlington Court With Chapel and Wash House
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, FRANCES DARLINGTON COURT, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203632
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 1-5 Frances Darlington Court With Chapel and Wash House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, FRANCES DARLINGTON COURT, CHURCH LANE
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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.
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:
- 1-5, FRANCES DARLINGTON COURT, 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 55557 15690
Details
SD 51 NE
5/19
CHARNOCK RICHARD,
CHURCH LANE,
Frances Darlington Court,
Nos. 1-5 with chapel and wash house
(Formerly listed as Nos. 119 to 127 (odd nos.) with chapel and washhouse (The Frances Darlington Trust))
26.11.1975
GV II
Almshouses, dated 1898, comprising 3 blocks of building and linking screen
walls: a row of 4 almshouses under one roof, a matron's house incorporating
a chapel, and between these a block of washhouses. All of coursed squared
sandstone, in Gothic style, with steeply-pitched and hipped roofs of
hexagonal slates (fleur-de-lys finials to gable copings) and octagonal
chimneys with moulded caps. All of one storey. The row of almshouses is
symmetrical, has a tall gable in the centre (with a decorated tablet), 4
low gabled porches (one at each end and 2 flanking the centre), and 6 stone
mullioned windows. At the left end is a screen wall with a gabled arched
doorway flanked by arched window openings, which links with a matching but
simpler block of 4 washhouses, which is similarly linked to the matron's
house. This incorporates as a crosswing at its left end a chapel with a
tall gable terminating in a bellcote (with bell); there is one rectangular
window with 3 cusped lights and a hoodmould in each gable of the chapel,
above these a stone tablet lettered "THE FRANCES DARLINGTON CHARITY".
Interior of chapel: glazed tiled walls, stained glass windows, and marble
memorial tablet to Frances Darlington (d. 1897) which states, inter alia,
that she laid the foundation stone of the church (Christ Church, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5555715690
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357534
- 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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