Church of the Sacred Heart is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Church.
Church of the Sacred Heart
- WRENN ID
- sunken-banister-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Sacred Heart, Brooke Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 590 171
- Coordinates
- 53.64961, -2.62111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Sacred Heart is a church built in 1894 by E. Kirby. It is constructed from yellow rock-faced stone with red sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a high nave with aisles and a polygonal apse, designed in the Geometrical style.
A notable feature is the tall gable front facing Brooke Street, which includes angle buttresses that end in short pinnacles. It has a giant splayed and moulded arch made of red sandstone with four orders. This arch frames a gableted splayed portal that contains coupled trefoil-headed doorways and a spherical triangle at the top featuring three trefoils. Above this, the wall is panelled with decorative coursing. The head of the arch is adorned with a rose window that has a cusped centre, a cross, and is surrounded by eight quatrefoils.
In the first bay, there are large gabled porches with a deep arch and a spherical triangle above, featuring flowing tracery. The clerestory has arched windows with two trefoil lights and a cinquefoil at the top, all set between pilaster strips. Inside, the church features an arcade of polished columns with moulded octagonal caps and two-centred arches, an arch-braced roof, and a high east window that breaks the cornice.
Local climate
Church of the Sacred Heart sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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