CHURCH OF ST DAVID
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1228229
Date first listed: 22-Feb-1967
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST DAVID, COPPERAS LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST DAVID, COPPERAS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish: Haigh
National Grid Reference: SD 60624 08972
Details
HAIGH COPPERAS LANE
SD 60 NW
(south side)
6/49 Church of
22.2.67 St. David
G.V. II
Church. 1830-3, with chancel of 1886 by J. Medland Taylor.
Stone with slate roof and tile crest. Nave with west porch
and north projection; chancel with south organ loft. 9-bay
nave has corbel table, lancets with hoods between thin
weathered buttresses. Western bay to north has pointed
entrance with blind lancet over, blind lancet to
corresponding south bay and ornamental iron railings to
basement. Gabled porch has triplet of lancets and north and
south entrances; projection above supports gabled bell cote.
Flanking lancets, that to south over later cusped lights.
North projection is later, lean-to roof, east quinquefoil
and west entrance; north straight-headed window with 2
cusped lights. 2-bay chancel has buttress to north with
hipped gable and half-hexagonal upper part; to east, a
lancet, to west, paired lancets under hood. East end has 3-
light plate tracery window on cusped sill course; gable
projection with cross. North lateral stack with clustered
octagonal shafts. Gabled organ loft has entrance to west,
lancet to south, and projection under cat-slide roof and 3-
light single-chamfered-mullioned window to east. Interior:
Flat panelled ceiling. Windows have round and octagonal
shafts. Corbelled chancel arch and arch to vestry with timber
screen. West gallery on 3 segmental arches. Central Warden's
pew has timber vaulted canopy and cresting. Baptistry to
left is war memorial. Ceiling has ribs and bosses,
wainscotting with pierced tracery.
Listing NGR: SD6062408972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 402586
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