Seventh Day Adventist Church
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, GRIMSHAW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292183
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Seventh Day Adventist Church
- Statutory Address:
- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, GRIMSHAW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292183
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Seventh Day Adventist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, GRIMSHAW STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, GRIMSHAW STREET
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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:
- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, GRIMSHAW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, GRIMSHAW STREET
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 54470 29408
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/05/2014
SD5429SW
941-1/12/160
PRESTON
GRIMSHAW STREET (East side)
Seventh Day Adventist Church
(Formerly listed as United Reformed Church, previously known as Grimshaw Street Congregational Chapel, GRIMSHAW STREET)
GV
II
Former Congregational chapel, now United Reformed church. 1857-59, by Bellamy and Hardy, on site of original chapel of 1810. Coursed rock-faced sandstone, slate roof. Rectangular plan with slightly broader front range, shallow rectangular extension ateast end. Gothic style. Two storeys, with a tripartite west front formed by a gabled centre flanked by square 2-stage towers, that on the left with a spire (the other uncompleted). The centre has 5 wide steps to a 3-bay entrance arcade of large 2-centred arches moulded in 2 orders with clustered shafts which have stiff-leaf caps, and doors with ornamental strap hinges; a large 2-centred arched 4-light window with quatrefoil tracery and hoodmould, and above this a small arched trefoil window with sill lettered: "A.D.MDCCCLIX". Both towers have angle-buttresses to the first stage, a sperical-triangle between these, a tall cusped lancet in each side of the 2nd stage, and the north tower has an octagonal spire on a low octagonal drum with a broach base. The 2-storey 6-bay side walls have full-height buttresses and square-headed windows all with 2 cusped lights, and those at ground floor with relieving arches over.
INTERIOR galleried.
Forms group with attached school on south side (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5447629413
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392044
- 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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