Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-entrance-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 51 NE CHARNOCK RICHARD CHURCH LANE
5/17 Christ Church (Formerly listed as Church of Christ) 17.4.1967 II
Church, 1856-60, by Harrison of Wigan. Sandstone rubble, roof of hexagonal slates in bands of blue and purple. West tower, nave, chancel with polygonal apse. In mixed style: forms of c.1200 with late Perpendicular details. Narrow 4-stage battlemented tower with diagonal buttresses (crocketed gablets at 1st stage), deeply moulded Tudor-arched west doorway with decorated spandrels, transomed 3-light west window in moulded 2-centred arch with hoodmould; dripstone band; 3 moulded circular clockfaces; 4 transomed 2-light belfry louvres; very prominent gargoyles at the corners, Buttressed 5 bay nave with gabled porch to 2nd bay and 3-light windows in Perpendicular style; chancel has 2 similar windows and coping pierced by mouchettes; 5-sided buttressed apse has transomed 2-light windows with cinque-foils in the heads and a battlemented coping. Interior: scissor-braced hammerbeam roof; dado of apse has Commandment (etc) tables of glazed polychrome tiles; monumental effigy in white marble of Mrs. Frances Darlington (d. 1897)by J. Nesfield Forsyth, 1903. History: built by James Darlington, J.P.,D.C., coal mine proprietor.
Listing NGR: SD5531515782
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