Nazareth Unitarian Church
NAZARETH UNITARIAN CHURCH, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238377
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Nazareth Unitarian Church
- Statutory Address:
- NAZARETH UNITARIAN CHURCH, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238377
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Nazareth Unitarian Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- NAZARETH UNITARIAN CHURCH, CHURCH STREET
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.
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:
- NAZARETH UNITARIAN CHURCH, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Padiham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 79001 33848
Details
SD 73 SE PADIHAM CHURCH STREET (south side)
3/35 Nazareth Unitarian Church
- II
Unitarian Church. 1872 by Virgil Anderton, a member of the congregation. Coursed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and spire. Slate roofs with gable copings. Built on a slope above school rooms in basement, cruciform plan with tower over porch to left and single-storey porch to right. Most details from the transition between Geometrical and Curvilinear. Facade has, below, a tall 3-light window with a quatrefoil, flanked by 2 lancets, and, above, a 4-light window subdivided into 2 pairs with a sexfoil. Openwork cross on gable and above East end. Doorway with shafted responds and crocket capitals and tympanum carrying datestone. 4-stage tower carries a short octagonal spire with a band of sunk quatrefoils below 4 blind lucarnes; junction of tower and spire cleverly concealed by 4 sturdy octagonal turrets and by gables rising above the bell-openings which have plate tracery. Interior has a broad nave under hammerbeam roof with remarkably slender trusses, shallow transpets with galleries, and a lower, aisled chancel lit by a 4-light window whose lower central lights have 3 quatrefoils in a circle above.
Listing NGR: SD7900133848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414884
- 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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