Parish Church of St Michael
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361661
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361661
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, PRESTON 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grimsargh
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58235 33835
Details
SD 53 SE GRIMSARGH PRESTON ROAD
8/87 Parish Church of St. Michael
II
Church, 1868-9, by Paley and Austin (Pevsner). Snecked sandstone, slate roofs. West tower, nave, north aisle under parallel roof, chancel. Simple Decorated style. Three-stage tower with south-east stair turret, angle buttresses, battlements and pyramidal roof, has 3-light belfry louvres with moulded surrounds and hoodmoulds, and a stone spout projecting from the centre of the string course below the battlements on each side. Five-bay buttressed nave has a sill-band carried round the buttresses, windows of 2 cusped lights each, gabled porch to 2nd bay. Lower single-bay chancel in matching style has traceried east window of 3 lights under a hoodmould with figured stops. North aisle has square-headed windows of 2 cusped lights each, a vestry at the east end with a doorway on the north side and 2 cusped windows in the east gable; this and the aisle have one gargoyle each. Interior: 5-bay aisle arcade of octagonal columns with moulded capitals supporting moulded 2-centred arches; similarly moulded chancel arch with carved angels beneath the capitals; wagon roof supported by short wallposts rising from foliated corbels; chancel with moulded arched door to vestry and 2 sedilia with cusped trefoil heads.
Listing NGR: SD5823533835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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