Church of St Joseph
CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, SKEFFINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279772
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, SKEFFINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279772
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, SKEFFINGTON 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 JOSEPH, SKEFFINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 55332 30086
Details
PRESTON
SD5530 SKEFFINGTON ROAD 941-1/5/241 (East side) Church of St Joseph
II
Roman Catholic church. 1873-74, by J.O'Byrne. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Nave, aisles, sanctuary and side chapels in one vessel (under one roof except for transeptal gables to chapels), with west porch, and attached vestry on north side. The wide gabled west front is tripartite, with buttresses, a porch clasped by these with a gabled centre containing a deep 2-centred arched brick doorway moulded in 4 orders, with coupled doors, and a coped gable with a lancet carried out as a parapet to sides which have similar lancets. Above the porch is a stepped group of 3 very tall 2-centre-arched 2-light windows with multifoil tracery, set in a round-headed blank arch, and on each side is a similar window with a hoodmould. The side walls are 6 bays, buttressed, with tall triple lancet windows in each bay and a multifoil in the gable at the east end. The sanctuary has 5 stepped lancets. INTERIOR: aisle arcades with columns of polished pink granite, stiff-leaf caps, and 2-centred double-chamfered arches with linked hoodmoulds; barrel-vaulted ceiling; west choir gallery with wooden arcaded front and projected semi-octagonal conductors stand; large elaborately carved Gothic reredos including marble shafts, central crocketed canopy with spire, and side arcades with life-size statues under crocketed gablets; marble octagonal pulpit with statues in arched niches and curved staircase; stained glass windows by Mayer of Munich and Casolini of St Helens. Built in centre of large cotton-mill district, and dedicated to St Joseph (the worker).
Listing NGR: SD5533230086
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392160
- 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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