Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
dreaming-barrel-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Burnley
Constituency
Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Andrew, Colne Road
OS grid reference
SD 846 340
Coordinates
53.80213, -2.23515
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew is a church built around 1867 by Medland Taylor, with a baptistry added in the 20th century. It is constructed from snecked rock-faced sandstone rubble with freestone dressings and features slate roofs with fishscale bands, all in the Gothic style. The layout includes a nave, a south-west steeple topped with a broach spire, north and south aisles, a chancel with a polygonal apse, a south chapel, and a north vestry.

The exterior showcases a three-stage tower with set-back buttresses. It has a two-centred arched west doorway with a cusped intrados and a red sandstone extrados, along with a recessed door. The second stage features a clock face, while the belfry stage has chamfered corners and two-centred arched two-light belfry windows. The broach spire includes lucarnes on the cardinal sides. The west gable of the nave is supported by angle-buttresses and features a large two-centred arched four-light west window, which has quirkily cusped lights on one side and a quatrefoil at the top with unusual scrolled cusping. Below this is a rectangular flat-roofed 20th-century baptistry with segmental-pointed windows that include one, two, and one traceried lights, topped with a coped parapet.

The nave has two tall gabled half-dormers on each side, each with two lights and differing multifoils in the heads. The broad aisles are of full height and buttressed; the four-bay north aisle has two-light windows that alternate between cusped and uncusped designs, while the three-bay south aisle features similar windows with two, three, and two lights, the center window having cusped lights. The north vestry has coupled gables, and the south chapel has one gable facing south and two facing east, all with two-light windows that have simple tracery. The apse contains three double-chamfered three-light windows, all with cusped lights and trefoils in the heads, except for the center window, which is blind. The church forms a group with St Andrew's School to the south.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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