Euxton Parish Church
EUXTON PARISH CHURCH, WIGAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362144
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Euxton Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- EUXTON PARISH CHURCH, WIGAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362144
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Euxton Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- EUXTON PARISH CHURCH, WIGAN 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:
- EUXTON PARISH CHURCH, WIGAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Euxton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 55543 18944
Details
SD 51 NE EUXTON WIGAN ROAD
5/124 Euxton Parish Church 17.4.1967 (Formerly listed as Euxton Church) GV II*
Church, probably C14 and late medieval (restored), with 1837 chancel. Sandstone rubble, stone slate roof. Small aisleless building, with some evidence of early rebuilding (see below, "History"). West front has diagonal buttresses, C19 arched doorway with hoodmould, a datestone over it lettered 1573 IDP (date may be "1513"); above this a C19 stepped R M A° dmi triple-lancet window with hoodmould following the heads, and on the apex of the gable a part-corbelled square bellcote of ashlar (possibly early C18). North side wall has a large buttress in the centre, left of it a low doorway with 2-centred double chamfered arch, and three 2-light windows similarly-arched with cusped tracery; masonry of this wall, incorporating some large dressed blocks, shows evidence of some early alterations. South wall has a similar buttress and 4 similar windows, of which the 1st and 3rd appear to be original; arched tear-line in wall near east end marks position of a former south doorway. Interior: single vessel (plus small C19 chancel); arch-braced kingpost roof (probably C16) with 2 tiers of cusped windbraces (westermost truss is modern copy); south wall has coupled piscina and sedile with moulded round arches and hoodmoulds; north wall incorporates aumbry. History: formerly known as Burgh Chapel, and said to have been built (1513) by Sir Wm. Molyneux (lord of the manor) as chapel-of-ease to Leyland Parish Church; was retained as Molyneux private property (and little-used Catholic chapel) from Reformation until transferred to the Established Church in early C18. (Pevsner: VCH Lancs; A. Hewitson: Our Country Churches and Chapels).
Listing NGR: SD5554318944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357641
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewitson, A, Our Country Churches and Chapels, (1872)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North 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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