Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, PADIHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245007
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, PADIHAM ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245007
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, PADIHAM 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, PADIHAM ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:
Ightenhill
National Grid Reference:
SD 80925 33488

Details

BURNLEY

SD8033 PADIHAM ROAD 906-1/6/111 (North side) 29/09/77 Church of All Saints

GV II

Church. c1846-9. By Weightman and Hadfield. Sandstone ashlar, with graduated slate roofs. Simplified Decorated style. Nave with west steeple, north and south aisles, south porch, north and south chapels, chancel with north vestry. EXTERIOR: the large 3-stage west tower, which is embraced by the aisles, has angle buttresses, a 2-centred arched west doorway with 2 orders of moulding and a trefoil-headed opening; a large 2-centred arched 4-light west window with elaborate moulding and multifoil tracery; 2-light belfry windows; corner grotesques; and a tall broach spire with lucarnes. The buttressed 5-bay south aisle has a gabled porch to the 2nd bay, with a 2-centred arched doorway and a vacant niche above this; and 2-light windows with cusped lights and varied multifoils in the heads; the chapel, to the right of this aisle and flush with it, is gabled and has a 3-light window; and all these openings have hood-moulds with large block stops. The north aisle is similar. The 5-bay nave, with lesenes and corbel tables, has one spherical-triangle clerestory window in each bay. The 2-bay chancel has a priest door, and windows of one and 2 lights in the south side, and a 5-light east window. INTERIOR: 5-bay aisle arcades of low cylindrical piers with moulded annular caps, and 2-centred double-chamfered arches with hood-moulds linked by figured stops; common-rafter roof; ornate chancel arch; Shuttleworth chapel to north; Dugdale chapel to south. HISTORY: paid for by the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall and the Dugdales, cotton manufacturers of Lowerhouse (representing the cooperation of landed and industrial wealth). Forms group with associated gateway and wall (qv); and its steeple is a very conspicuous feature of the skyline on this side of Burnley.



Listing NGR: SD8092533488

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Legacy System number:
467167
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.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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