Church of St Saviour
CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, NEW LINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361954
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, NEW LINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361954
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, NEW LINE
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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 SAVIOUR, NEW LINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 86649 21962
Details
SD 82 SE BACUP NEW LINE
7/39 Church of St. Saviour - GV II
Church, 1864-5, by Edward Wyndham Tarn (Pevsner). Rock-faced sandstone, steeply-pitched slate roof with bands of green fish-scale slates. Nave with north and south aisles, chancel with polygonal apse, very prominent north-east tower with broach spire; in Gothic style, with mostly plate tracery. Seven-bay nave and aisles; aisles have short buttresses, 2 windows in each bay as alternating pairs either of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoils in the head or single cusped lights, clerestory has coupled segmental pointed lights; at west end of north aisle is gabled porch with steeply-pitched roof and moulded arch. At east end of south aisle is a cross-gabled baptistery. West end is buttressed and has at lower level an arcade of 3+5+3 recessed 2-light windows, round windows over the outer groups, and in centre a large tripartite west window with 2 orders (with shaft rings) to flanking lancets and a large 3-light centre which has bar tracery in the head. Buttressed apse with trefoil-pierced parapet has moulded lancets containing bar tracery with trefoils in the heads. Three stage tower with polygonal stair turret has recessed 2-light belfry louvres, a Lombard frieze, and lucarnes to the spire. Interior: 7-bay nave arcade composed of slender polished columns with prominent moulded caps carrying double-chamfered 2-centred arches; clerestory-level wall shafts with moulded caps supporting cusped bracing to wagon roof. West gallery passing through 3rd bay of arcade. Windows of apse linked by blind arcading containing Commandment Tables etc; similar blind arcading to side walls of baptistery containing lettered panels: on east side commemorating John Holt of Stubbylee (q.v.) 1804-36 and other members of this family, on west side 1914-18 War Memorials. Beneath floor at east end is font for baptism by immersion.
Listing NGR: SD8664921962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185616
- 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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