Church of St Stephen
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, OXFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245002
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, OXFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245002
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, OXFORD 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 STEPHEN, OXFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84784 31814
Details
BURNLEY
SD83SW OXFORD ROAD, Burnley Wood
906-1/3/170 (East side)
29/09/77 Church of St Stephen
II
Church. 1876-9, by John Green. Snecked rock-faced sandstone,
slate roofs. Nave with north-west tower, north and south
aisles, chancel with south vestry.
EXTERIOR: the 3-stage tower, with angle buttresses, an
embattled parapet with prominent corner gargoyles, and an
octagonal north-west stair turret terminating in an open
arcade above parapet level, has steps up to a gabled porch
with a 2-centred arched west doorway which has a moulded
surround with set-in shafts of polished pink granite and a
hood-mould with figured stops, and gable coping with an apex
cross; a band of triangular trefoil windows above the porch; a
set-back 2nd stage with a clock face set in Gothic blind
arcading; a 2-centred arched belfry window with shafts, plate
tracery and a hood-mould with figured stops; and a band of
blind arcading below the parapet. The 5-bay nave has a
2-centred arched 4-light west window with trefoil lights and
multifoil tracery; its aisles and clerestory have small paired
cusped lancet windows. The chancel has a 3-light east window
with geometrical tracery; and the vestry forming a wing on its
south side has a 3-sided apsidal south end, buttressed, with
tall traceried lancet windows.
INTERIOR: 5-bay aisle arcades with cylindrical columns which
have prominent carved crocketed caps, carrying
double-chamfered 2-centred arches (the arches of the 2
western-most bays on each side now blocked and parish rooms
inserted at that end); tall 2-centred chancel arch with
moulding including shafts of polished pink granite and
hood-mould with angel terminals; arch-braced king-post roof
with wall-posts supported by detached shafts which have
foliated corbels and caps; stained glass War Memorial west
window.
Listing NGR: SD8478431814
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467163
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10640
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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