Former Church of St Stephen
Holden Wood Antiques Centre, Grane Road, Haslington, BB4 4AT
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361962
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- Holden Wood Antiques Centre, Grane Road, Haslington, BB4 4AT
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361962
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- Holden Wood Antiques Centre, Grane Road, Haslington, BB4 4AT
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:
- Holden Wood Antiques Centre, Grane Road, Haslington, BB4 4AT
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 77397 22564
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/01/2019
SD 72 SE
5/93
HASLINGDEN
GRANE ROAD
Holden Wood Antiques Centre
Former Church of St. Stephen
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Stephen)
II
Former church, 1868, rebuilt on this site 1926-1927 (architect then Robert Martin LRIBA). Rock-faced sandstone, slate roof with two bands of fishscale slates. North-west tower with spire, nave with polygonal chancel, in simple Gothic style.
Three-stage tower incorporating porch has angle buttresses, arched north doorway with hoodmould and figured stops, two triangular trefoils in each side wall, two lancets in each side at the middle level, belfry with two cusped louvres in a panel with Lombard frieze, and a broach spire with lucarnes to the cardinal faces. West end of nave has short gabled porch with figured stops to the hoodmould of the arch, buttresses flanking this, windows of two cusped lights at each side, and above the porch a three-light west window with plate tracery. Buttressed five bay nave has two-light windows with plate tracery, and polygonal chancel in matching style has gabled vestry and organ house on north and south sides. Small modern extension at south-west corner of nave.
Interior: nave is single vessel with arch-braced hammerbeam roof supported by carved stone corbels, all with different foliation; chancel roof supported by hammerbeam rising from carved angel corbels has one scissor-braced truss.
Brass plate in south side of chancel arch states that church "formerly stood one and a quarter miles up the valley", and was rebuilt on this site, consecrated 22 May 1927: plate on facing wall marking corner stone laid by Earl of Derby March 21 1926.
War memorial window on south side of nave portraying soldier with helmet and rifle loosely held in his hands, a large angel with arm over his shoulder pointing heavenwards with her other hand, and Christ the King waiting in the other window: lettering at the head "Well done thou good and faithful servant Enter thou into the joy of the Lord", and at the foot commemorating sixteen men of this parish.
Listing NGR: SD7739722564
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 29 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/18706
War Memorials Online, accessed 29 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/168730
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 06-Jun-2026 at 21:31:53.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.