Church Of St Andrew

BURNLEY

SD83SW COLNE ROAD 906-1/3/45 (East side) 29/09/77 Church of St Andrew

GV II

Church. c1867, by Medland Taylor; with baptistry added in C20. Snecked rock-faced sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, slate roofs with fishscale bands. Gothic style. PLAN: nave, south-west steeple with broach spire, north and south aisles, chancel with polygonal apse, south chapel and north vestry. EXTERIOR: the 3-stage tower, with set-back buttresses, has a 2-centred arched west doorway with cusped intrados, red sandstone extrados, and a recessed door; a clockface to the 2nd stage; a belfry stage with chamfered corners and 2-centred arched 2-light belfry windows; and a broach spire with lucarnes in the cardinal sides. The west gable of the nave has angle-buttresses, a large 2-centred arched 4-light west window with lights quirkily cusped on one side only and a quatrefoil in the head with unusual scrolled cusping, and below this a rectangular flat-roofed C20 baptistry with segmental-pointed windows of 1, 2 and 1 traceried lights and a coped parapet. The nave has 2 tall gabled half-dormers in each side, all of 2 lights with differing multifoils in the heads. The aisles are broad, of full height and buttressed; the 4-bay north aisle has 2-light windows, alternately cusped and uncusped; the 3-bay south aisle has similar windows of 2, 3 and 2 lights, that in the centre with cusped lights. The north vestry has coupled gables; the south chapel has one gable to the south and 2 to the east, all with 2-light windows which have simple tracery. The apse has 3 double-chamfered 3-light windows, all with cusped lights and trefoils in the heads but that in the centre blind. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with St Andrew's School to the south (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8461034005