Church Of St Catherine With St Alban And St Paul

BURNLEY

SD8432SE TODMORDEN ROAD 906-1/21/139 (East side) 29/09/77 Church of St Catherine with St Alban and St Paul (Formerly Listed as: TODMORDEN ROAD (East side) Church of St Catharine)

GV II

Anglican church. 1897. By Medland Taylor. Coursed yellow sandstone rubble with red sandstone dressings and slate roofs with red ridge tiles. Arts and Crafts style. PLAN: nave at right-angles to street with a north-west tower incorporating the porch, a south-west wing, an unusual external south aisle (see below), and an apsidal chancel with north organ house and south chapel. EXTERIOR: the west facade is composed of a wide central gable flanked by a small tower to the left and a set-back wing to the right, with various sillbands stepped round. The tower, of 3 short stages, the upper ones slightly set back, has a depressed arched doorway with chamfered surround and moulded head, a shouldered lancet to the 2nd stage and a small 2-light window above this, and a belfry with 2-light wooden louvred openings protected by the oversailing eaves of a swept pyramidal roof with a finial. The main gable has a ground floor arcade of 3 chamfered arches with polychrome heads, the 1st 2 being windows of one and 2 lights respectively and the 3rd a deeply-splayed ogival-headed doorway with a moulded surround and crockets in the head, each carved with a different letter spelling "CATHERINE"; a very large 4-centred arched west window with cusped lights and a hood-mould with an ogival apex forming a pedestal to a statue in a niche; and 3 crosses at the apex. The set-back 2-storey wing, with one small window on each floor, an embattled parapet and a tall 2-light window in the gable, is pierced at ground floor by a passage with Tudor-arched doorways at each end. This leads through to an arcade or external aisle formed by flying buttresses to the south side of the nave. Both sides of the nave, which is of 5 bays and has conventional buttresses to the north side, have tall windows alternately of 2 and 3 lancet lights. The chancel has 4-light dormer windows on both sides of the 1st bay, that on the north side gabled and that on the south side with a hipped roof; the north chapel is canted, and the south chapel

is rectangular under a carried-down roof. INTERIOR: brick walls; nave and chancel in one, with massive arch-braced roof: semicircular arches, short king-posts with raked struts; good wrought-iron screen to sanctuary mostly removed and choir stalls reduced (for liturgical reasons); shallow apse with wrought-iron baldachino; good stained glass memorial window of 1926 in north side.

Listing NGR: SD8477732348