List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
List entry Number: 1072441
Location
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGE'S STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Lancashire | Chorley | District Authority | |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 21-Dec-1966
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System: LBS
UID: 357583
Asset Groupings
This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.
List entry Description
Summary of Building
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Reasons for Designation
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
History
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Details
SD 51 NE CHORLEY ST. GEORGE'S STREET
5/67
21.12.1966 Church of St. George
GV II*
Church, 1822-25, by Thomas Rickman. Ashlar, with slate roof. West tower,
nave and chancel in one, north and south aisles; in Early English Style.
Four stage battlemented tower with small angle buttresses; like all the
buttresses on the building these are persistently chamfered, and end in
octagonal pinnacles. Arched west doorway under a crocketed gable; tall
lancet with hoodmould; clockfaces on 3 sides of short 3rd stage; belfry
with arcades of 3 tall lancets (the outer ones blind). Seven-bay nave and
aisles; aisles have vertically-emphasised bays of coupled lancets with
stopped hoodmoulds, separated by buttresses ending in pinnacles above a
plain coping; nave has horizontal emphasis with clerestorey of evenly-
spaced lancets (2 to each bay), the hoodmoulds linked by a band carried
across vestigial buttresses which terminate below the cornice of a
battlemented parapet. East window of 5 stepped lights. Interior:
moulded 2-centred arches on piers with attached shafts which have
moulded caps; deeply splayed tower arch with tracery and stained glass;
all ceilings are flat, but supported by flying ribs, simply in the aisles,
but of hammerbeam construction in the nave with sexfoil spandrels, every
other frame standing on wall shafts; gallery of arcaded panels at west
end and inside each aisle, supported by very slim iron shafts and cusped
multifoil segmental arches. Baptistery at west end of north aisle has
white marble angel carrying a scalloped bowl (said to be copied from
Thorwaldsen); elaborately sculpted octagonal pulpit by Thomas Rawcliffe
of Chorley; parts of original box pews now form wainscot to aisle walls. A
Commissioners' church which cost £12,387(Pevsner). An impressive and
characteristic Rickman design.
Listing NGR: SD5850917474
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner - Title: North Lancashire The Rural North - Date: 1969 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England
National Grid Reference: SD 58509 17474
Map
© Crown Copyright and database right 2012. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019088.
© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2012. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached PDF - 1072441.pdf
This copy shows the entry on 19-Jun-2013 at 02:35:20.