Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, BURNLEY ROAD EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361996
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, BURNLEY ROAD EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361996
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, BURNLEY ROAD EAST
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 MICHAEL, BURNLEY ROAD EAST
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 83738 24888
Details
SD 82 SW RAWTENSTALL BURNLEY ROAD EAST Lumb
6/168 Church of St. Michael - - II
Church, 1847-8, by J. Clarke (Pevsner); altered. Sandstone rubble with steeply-pitched stone slate roofs (except nave, which is now slate) gable copings with figured kneelers. Cruciform plan: nave, transepts, apsidal chancel, focussed on a square crossing tower with cylindrical stair turret attached at south east corner. Norman style, with small round-headed windows. West end of 3-bay nave has added porch protecting a round-arched doorway which has shafts with cushion capitals, 3 windows above the porch, circular window in the gable; side walls of nave have 3 windows; short transepts have one window in each side, 2 in the gable and a circular window above; apse has 3 windows and roof with overhanging eaves. Short crossing tower of one stage above the ridge has on each side a round-headed belfry opening of 2 louvres with a cushion-capital colonette, corbelled parapet with roll-moulded weathered coping, and a weather vane rising from the centre of the roof (which is not visible); in south-east angle is an unusual 2-stage stair turret, the 1st stage square with a priest door and 2 lancets, the upper stage cylindrical with a conical cap. Interior: altered by insertion of partition wall in tower arch, leaving nave as single vessel, the only feature of interest being the arch-braced collar beam roof. History: Commissioners' church, cost £2,060 (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SD8373824888
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185747
- 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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