Church Of All Saints

BURNLEY

SD8033 PADIHAM ROAD 906-1/6/111 (North side) 29/09/77 Church of All Saints

GV II

Church. c1846-9. By Weightman and Hadfield. Sandstone ashlar, with graduated slate roofs. Simplified Decorated style. Nave with west steeple, north and south aisles, south porch, north and south chapels, chancel with north vestry. EXTERIOR: the large 3-stage west tower, which is embraced by the aisles, has angle buttresses, a 2-centred arched west doorway with 2 orders of moulding and a trefoil-headed opening; a large 2-centred arched 4-light west window with elaborate moulding and multifoil tracery; 2-light belfry windows; corner grotesques; and a tall broach spire with lucarnes. The buttressed 5-bay south aisle has a gabled porch to the 2nd bay, with a 2-centred arched doorway and a vacant niche above this; and 2-light windows with cusped lights and varied multifoils in the heads; the chapel, to the right of this aisle and flush with it, is gabled and has a 3-light window; and all these openings have hood-moulds with large block stops. The north aisle is similar. The 5-bay nave, with lesenes and corbel tables, has one spherical-triangle clerestory window in each bay. The 2-bay chancel has a priest door, and windows of one and 2 lights in the south side, and a 5-light east window. INTERIOR: 5-bay aisle arcades of low cylindrical piers with moulded annular caps, and 2-centred double-chamfered arches with hood-moulds linked by figured stops; common-rafter roof; ornate chancel arch; Shuttleworth chapel to north; Dugdale chapel to south. HISTORY: paid for by the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall and the Dugdales, cotton manufacturers of Lowerhouse (representing the cooperation of landed and industrial wealth). Forms group with associated gateway and wall (qv); and its steeple is a very conspicuous feature of the skyline on this side of Burnley.

Listing NGR: SD8092533488