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 STEPHEN
List entry Number: 1384470
Location
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, HIELAND ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 11-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 484904
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
WIGAN
SD50NE HIELAND ROAD, Whelley
24-1/2/135 Church of St Stephen
11/07/83
II
Church. 1930-38, in several builds, by Austin and Paley.
Snecked sandstone rubble, green slate roofs. Free
Perpendicular style.
PLAN: nave and chancel in one, with low north and south
aisles, south porch, vestry parallel to chancel.
EXTERIOR: the nave has broad clasping buttresses at the west
end, a canted baptistery between these, above this a large
transomed 4-light west window, and on the south side 4 large
3-light clerestory windows with Perpendicular tracery.
The south aisle has a prominent gabled porch to the 1st bay
with diagonal buttresses, and a 2-centred arched doorway
moulded in 2 orders with a hood-mould stepped over a shield at
the apex; pairs of square-headed windows with arched lights
and hollow spandrels, and at the east end a small porch with
arched side door and hipped roof.
The chancel has a canted east end with a parapet, and
buttresses flanking a large 5-light window with simple
Perpendicular tracery. The tall 2-bay vestry attached to its
south side has on the south side 2 square-headed 2-light
windows with cusped lights, mouchette tracery and hood-moulds
with deep returned ends; and at the east end a broad corner
buttress with offsets, a 2-centred arched 3-light east window
with Perpendicular tracery, flanked by pilaster buttresses
carried up to a large gabled bellcote.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD5929006702
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National Grid Reference: SD 59290 06702
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