Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick With Attached Presbytery
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST PATRICK WITH ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, GREAT MOOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1388045
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1999
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST PATRICK WITH ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, GREAT MOOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1388045
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1999
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST PATRICK WITH ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, GREAT MOOR STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST PATRICK WITH ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, GREAT MOOR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71801 08961
Details
BOLTON
SD70NW GREAT MOOR STREET 797-1/4/98 (South side) Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick with attached presbytery
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1861. Charles Holt, architect. Roughly coursed and squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof with scalloped bands. Presbytery is rubble faced with brick to rear, slate roof. Nave with single aisle, and tower to (liturgical) south-west. Presbytery adjoins the church to the east. EXTERIOR: 2 stage tower with short spire, clasping buttresses to lower stage which has simple chamfered arched doorway in south face of tower, with statue in niche above. Bell chamber lights in upper stage which is chamfered to form octagonal base for short copper spire. Asymmetrical west end, with roof sweeping over north aisle, which has west doorway. 3-light window of foiled lancets in west of nave, with rose window above. 4-bay nave with low triple lancet window in western bay (beneath gallery within), and paired foiled lancets in other bays. Presbytery is 3 storey, single-window range in asymmetrical gable, with catslide roof to right over entrance in added porch with quatrefoil window over. Canted bay window in main gable to left with spired 2-light casement windows above, and 3-light window in gable apex. INTERIOR: has 4-bay northern arcade with octagonal shafts on high bases and double chamfered arches. Panelled wagon roof. Western gallery. Simple chamfered chancel arch. Traceried reredos with low relief panels each side. Stained glass in east window, a depiction of the crucifixion. The interior of the presbytery not inspected. (BOE: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD7180108961
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 476043
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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