Church of St Saviour is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1966. A C19 Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church of St Saviour
- WRENN ID
- silent-banister-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden MP: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Saviour, Fold Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 764 052
- Coordinates
- 53.5436, -2.35699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Saviour, built between 1850 and 1854 by architects Sharpe and Paley, is located on Kearsley Fold Road in Ringley. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. The church has a nave with aisles beneath lean-to roofs and a chancel that includes a south vestry.
The five-bay nave is adorned with aisle windows that have two trefoil-headed lights under multifoils and single-chamfered tracery. The clerestory contains quatrefoil windows. The north aisle features a porch with a segmental-pointed entrance and a window to the right with three pointed lights supported by uncarved corbels. The west end has an entrance beneath three tall two-light traceried windows, with an octagonal turret to the right that has a gabled buttress. The turret's top stage includes angle shafts and lancet openings, topped with a cornice and slate spire. There is also a gabled buttress to the left and two-light plate tracery aisle windows. The entrance hood stops and buttress corbels are uncarved.
The chancel is flanked by diagonal buttresses and has stepped triple lancets, with three additional lancets on the north side. The vestry features two lights and a keyed roundel, with the keys inscribed with the letters AMDG. Its entrance has a shouldered lintel to the east, and there are straight-headed windows to the south and west.
Inside, the church has five-bay nave arcades supported by round columns and a braced collar roof. A round font rests on clustered shafts. Above the entrance, there is a depiction of the arms of Charles I, dated 1637. The church contains wall memorials for Ellis Fletcher, who died in 1836, and Matthew Fletcher, who died in 1808; both memorials feature figures by urns on plinths with profile portraits. The chancel arch is supported by corbelled shafts, and there is an octagonal pulpit on a shaft adorned with symbols of the evangelists. A rood on the beam, added in 1928, displays a crucifixion flanked by figures. An organ loft is located to the south.
The east end of the church features alabaster arcading with mosaic panels and ceramic tile figures, a double piscina to the north, and three sedilia to the south. The church also boasts good 19th-century stained glass in the east and 17th-century armorial glass in the north, along with two early 19th-century wall memorials.
Local climate
Church of St Saviour sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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