Church Of Immanuel

SD 62 NW LIVESEY PLEASINGTON LANE

1/37 Church of Immanuel - GV II

Church, also known as Feniscowles Parish Church, dated 1836 (on rainwaterhead), by Edmund Sharpe. Dressed grey gritsone, slate roof. Nave and chancel in one, west tower with spire: in early Perpendicular style. Short 2-stage tower embraced by nave has diagonal buttresses with moulded weatherings (originally finished with pinnacles only the bases remaining and with an inner set of pinnacles at the corners of the tower, all now missing); a 2-light west window to the 1st stage, a short set-back 2nd stage which has chamfered rectangular belfry louvres with trefoil tracery in the heads and hoodmoulds; and set-back octagonal spire with lucarnes. Nave of 3½ bays, with a moulded sill band; north and south sides differ. On the south side the 1st bay projects, the roof carried down over it, and has a short gabled porch with a 2-centred arched doorway moulded in 2 orders, the band following the head, and a cross on the apex; both the bay and the porch have diagonal buttresses; the other bays have flat-headed windows of 4, 5 and one light with chamfered surrounds, ogee-headed trefoil tracery, and hoodmoulds, these bays separated by buttresses. The north side is more irregular, having similar windows of one, 5, 1, 1, and 2 lights separated by buttresses. Three-light east window is arched with decorated tracery. Interior: single vessel with flat ceiling, west balcony on slim iron columns bearing a large organ in the centre, C20 screen almost completely open except for small Gothic-style tracery in the heads. History: built at the charge of the Fielden family of Feniscowles.

Listing NGR: SD6441725732