Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary

PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, WIGAN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204410
Date first listed:
21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, WIGAN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204410
Date first listed:
21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, WIGAN ROAD

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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:
PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY, WIGAN ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Euxton
National Grid Reference:
SD 55364 19110

Details

SD 51 NE EUXTON WIGAN ROAD

Presbytery to Roman Catholic 5/128 Church of St. Mary - GV II

Presbytery, 1864-5, with clock tower 1877, by Pugin and Pugin. Rock faced red sandstone (rear and west walls of brick), steeply pitched slate roof with various chimneys. Double pile plan of 2) storeys and basement; front of 2 gabled bays and a 3-stage buttressed clocktower which incorporates doorway with shouldered head at east side. Left gable has 2-storey canted bay, right gable has one tall window each floor (glazing altered). Clock tower has diagonal buttresses, narrow cusped window at ground floor and one on each side above, tall cusped and louvred belfry openings at 2nd floor, a bracketed eaves cornice, a slated spire with swept eaves, and a clock face on the eaves of the east side. A plaque inside the entrance slates that the clock and tower were given by William Ince Anderton in 1877 as a benefaction to the township of Euxton upon the coming of age of his eldest son on 22 December 1876.

Listing NGR: SD5536419110

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Legacy System number:
357645
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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