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 CATHERINE
List entry Number: 1384484
Location
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, LORNE STREET
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: 484918
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
WIGAN
SD50NE LORNE STREET
24-1/2/31 Church of St Catherine
11/07/83
II
Church. 1840, by Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster. Coursed squared
sandstone, slate roof. Gothick Early English.
PLAN: nave and aisles in one vessel, with south vestry, short
chancel, west steeple linked to nave by short narthex with
stair-turrets in angles.
EXTERIOR: square 2-stage tower with gabled sides,
angle-buttresses and corner pinnacles, mediated to a tall
octagonal belfry also with gabled sides, carrying a tall
octagonal spire with lucarnes on 2 levels: the tower has a
2-centred arched west doorway with deep moulded surround and
hood-mould, and stepped triple-lancet windows in each side of
the upper stage with metal clock-faces in the gables over
them; the belfry has slender angle buttresses, a narrow lancet
in each side with a blind multifoil in the gable above, and
finials to the gables of the cardinal sides. The stair-turrets
have angle-buttresses carried up to pinnacles, and a lancet in
each side. The 6-bay aisles, with small buttresses and
parapets with ridged coping, have a pair of lancets in each
bay; the south aisle has a low vestry to the 6th bay with
arched doorway and windows, and hipped roof. The chancel has a
stepped triple-lancet east window. All windows have
hood-moulds with small foliated stops.
INTERIOR: single vessel with short sanctuary; trefoil-panelled
galleries on 3 sides carried on cast-iron columns, organ on
west gallery; box pews (removed from west end which is now
partitioned off by glazed screen); queen-strut roof with
wrought-iron straps; octagonal pulpit on unusually high
slender pedestal; panelled Gothic-style war memorial at west
end dated 1922.
Forms group with boundary wall of churchyard (qv), and with St
Catherine's vicarage to south (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5922405689
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National Grid Reference: SD 59224 05689
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