Nazareth Unitarian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Nazareth Unitarian Church
- WRENN ID
- fallow-fireplace-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Nazareth Unitarian Church, Church Street, Padiham, BB12 8JH
- OS grid reference
- SD 790 338
- Coordinates
- 53.80052, -2.3203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nazareth Unitarian Church is a Unitarian church built in 1872 by Virgil Anderton, a member of the congregation. The church is constructed from coursed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and features a spire. It has slate roofs with gable copings and is situated on a slope above school rooms in the basement. The building has a cruciform plan, with a tower over the porch on the left and a single-storey porch on the right. Most architectural details reflect the transition between Geometrical and Curvilinear styles.
The facade includes a tall three-light window with a quatrefoil, flanked by two lancets, and above it is a four-light window divided into two pairs with a sexfoil. An openwork cross adorns the gable and the east end. The doorway features shafted responds, crocket capitals, and a tympanum that carries the datestone. The four-stage tower supports a short octagonal spire, which has a band of sunk quatrefoils below four blind lucarnes. The junction of the tower and spire is cleverly concealed by four sturdy octagonal turrets and gables that rise above the bell-openings, which are decorated with plate tracery.
Inside, the church has a broad nave under a hammerbeam roof supported by remarkably slender trusses. There are shallow transepts with galleries and a lower, aisled chancel that is lit by a four-light window, where the lower central lights feature three quatrefoils arranged in a circle above.
Local climate
Nazareth Unitarian Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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