Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243542
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243542
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANCHESTER ROAD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Pendle (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nelson
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 85607 37595
Details
SD 83 NE
11/173
NELSON
MANCHESTER ROAD
Church of St Mary
II
Church. 1879 with addition of west bay and tower 1905-8. By Waddington & Dunkerley. Ashlar with slate roofs. Nave with lean-to aisles, chancel and west tower and spire. Nave and aisles of 6 bays, the aisles with 2-light plate-traceried windows, the clerestory with alternate groups of 2 and 3 lancets. Gabled, buttressed porch to 1st bay on south side. Chancel a little lower with 2-light windows in colonnaded arches, and steeply pointed east window of 4 lights with quatrefoils in the head. Small 3-light window in gable apex. Organ loft projects under cross-roof from south side of chancel. Low, steeply offset buttresses to all sides. Tall, severe, west tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses dying into canted pinnacles which recede into the minor faces of octagonal spire, the cardinal faces having tall lucarnes. 3-light west window with cusping and arcaded belfry stages with tall single louvres. Interior not inspected.
In use as a church at the date of listing but converted to a training centre, teaching traditional building skills, in 2012.
Listing NGR: SD8560737595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186333
- 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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