Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BATH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388252
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BATH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388252
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BATH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES 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:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, BATH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES ROAD
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 71600 09600
Details
BOLTON
SD7109NE ST GEORGE'S ROAD
797-1/14/195 (North side)
26/04/74 Church of St George
GV II*
Includes: Church of St George BATH STREET.
Church, now in use as craft centre. 1796 with late C20
alterations. Brick with slate roof and stone dressings. West
tower and single span roof over galleried nave, expressed
externally as 2 storeys; shallow chancel and south chapel
added or rebuilt 1907, by James Simpson.
EXTERIOR: 4 stage tower, with pedimented west doorway with
traceried fanlight; iron-framed ogee window above, and clock
inset in stone. Triple bell-chamber lights beneath segmental
archway in upper stage. Stone parapet with ball finials.
7-bay nave, extended by a single bay to the north-east.
Pedimented over central 4 windows each side. Round arched
windows with margin lights, the window in the north-east
extension in stone architrave. West doors each side, with
diagonal panelling and pedimented cases. Interlace tracery in
fanlights.
Early C20 chancel in flamboyant interpretation of the
classical style; Pedimented feature applied to east wall, with
round arched main window with oculus above, in segmentally
arched recess with elongated voussoirs, and panelled pilasters
each side. Venetian window in each wall of south chapel.
INTERIOR: 7 bays, with galleries to west, north and south.
Wood panelling encasing supporting pillars, and panelled
parapet to galleries. Segmentally arched ceiling, divided into
plaster panels with simple mouldings.
Low stone wall to chancel which is raised up steps flanked by
heavy volutes as balusters.
Coupled piers divide the chancel into 2 bays, expressed by
enriched plasterwork to segmentally arched ceiling. Paired
arches to chapel to south, with organ chamber to north.
Pilasters flank the east window, which has pictorial stained
glass as a private war memorial.
Chancel furniture in Renaissance style, including choir stalls
and ornate high pedestal pulpit with long curved staircase;
altar rails and altar piece with central niche below broken
pediment.
(BOE: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD7160009600
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, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/43697
War Memorials Online, accessed 17 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/235918
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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