EMMANUEL CHURCH

EMMANUEL CHURCH, BROOK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207246
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: EMMANUEL CHURCH
Statutory Address:: EMMANUEL CHURCH, BROOK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207246
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: EMMANUEL CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: EMMANUEL CHURCH, BROOK STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: EMMANUEL CHURCH, BROOK STREET

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 53143 30568

Details

PRESTON

SD53SW BROOK STREET 941-1/1/34 (East side) Emmanuel Church

II

Church. 1868-70, by Myres, Veevers & Myres; altered. Red brick with some blue, black and white brick, sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Nave with south-west tower, north and south transepts, chancel, and apsidal vestries attached to east side of transepts. Mixed Early English and Decorated style. The tower, with angle-buttresses up to the belfry stage and corner pilasters to that, has small circular windows and lancets to the lower stage, with blue bands arched over them, a chequered band to the belfry stages, and tall coupled belfry windows, triple-recessed, with slender shafts in the centre and carved imposts run out round the pilastered corners, a carved band above with very promiment corner gargoyles in the form of winged beasts, a parapet of 2 pierced bands (the upper of stone), and octagonal corner pinnacles. The west front of the 5-bay nave has a shallow rectangular porch (now mostly covered by a glazed extension) with elaborate carved stone enrichment including a pierced parapet with triangular upstands over tablets with lettered banners ("I am the true vine" and "I am the bread of life"), and above this a 2-centred arched west window of 4 cusped lights with trefoil and quatrefoil tracery, a polychrome band arched over it and a zig-zag band crossing the apex; and a steeply-pitched and swept roof. The sides are buttressed and have 2-light windows with polychrome heads and bands. The transepts have small lancets with saw-tooth decoration, and in the gable a large arched 4-light window with deep polychrome sill-band. The north apse has an arched doorway with shafts and saw-tooth decoration, under a steep gablet. The chancel has, inter alia, a traceried 5-light east window. INTERIOR: hammerbeam roof.

Listing NGR: SD5314330568

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 391911
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.