Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, GOOSNARGH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361634
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, GOOSNARGH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361634
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, GOOSNARGH LANE
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, GOOSNARGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goosnargh
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 55951 36922
Details
SD 53 SE GOOSNARGH GOOSNARGH LANE
5/48 Church of St. Mary 11.11.1966 GV II*
Church, late medieval, altered or enlarged in late C16, restored 1868-9 and 1895. Mostly large sandstone rubble, slate roof (1868-9) with a 2 dormers on south and 3 on north side. West tower, nave with full-height north and south aisles, chancel. Three-stage tower, with full-height south-east stair turret and diagonal 6-stage west buttresses, has on west side a round-headed chamfered doorway with hoodmould, a 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery; on west and south sides diamond-shaped clock faces; and on all sides 3-light lourved belfry windows with Perpendicular tracery, and an embattled parapet. Low buttressed south aisle of 4 bays, probably late C16, has a gabled porch to the 1st bay, and a recessed square-headed window of 2 round-headed lights with hollow spandrels in each of the other 3 bays; north aisle is late medieval, and has a blocked doorway to the lst bay and 3 windows, all of 2 lights but otherwise differing: the first 2 have cinquefoil lights, the other has pointed lights of C14 type; and at the east end of this aisle is a flush window of 3 round-headed lights (the chancel wall adjoining has a similar 2-light window). The chancel has a recessed 5-light east window with a transom at the springing and the lights round-headed above and below this; on the south side a priest door, a segmental-headed window to the right with a central cinquefoil and flanking trefoil headed lights, and a 2-light window to the left like those in the south aisle. Interior: north arcade of 6 pointed arches of 2 chamfered orders carried on octagonal piers and responds with plain moulded capitals and bases, south arcade similar but only 5 arches; roof of roughly-hewn ties and principals with angle struts and arch-braced collars, except the truss at the junction with the chancel which has a crown post and decorative framing; chancel roof of roll-moulded beams supported by short wallposts on corbels; at east end of north aisle a wooden screen to the Middleton Chapel, with turned balusters in the upper part and a door in the west side, the top rail carved and lettered on the west side "TR 1721" and on the south side "AR 1622" (Thomas and Alexander Rigby); within this enclosure an elaborately carved C15 tombstone; in tower arch another wooden screen with turned balusters on the top, and a central door lettered "RC IL II JW 1678" (formerly part of rood screen). References: VCH Lancs: Fishwick Goosnargh pp. 10-25. A. Hewitson Our Country Churches and Chapels Preston 1872, pp. 70-77.
Listing NGR: SD5595136922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fishwick, , Goosnargh, (1871), 10-25
Hewitson, A, Our Country Churches and Chapels, (1872), 70-77
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911)
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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