Victory/Parish Hall

A Victory/Parish Hall opened in 1920 and built to a design by the architect F Harrison of Lytham and Accrington. It is built in the Perpendicular style using red brick with sandstone dressings beneath a slate roof and is rectangular in plan.

EXTERIOR: the hall is of six bays beneath a pitched roof and is flanked to either side by lower two-bay service wings, that to the west beneath a half-pyramid roof, that to the east beneath a half-hipped roof. The hall's north and south elevations have tall, three-light, elliptical-arched windows with the second and fifth bays being taller and set within gables flanked by tall buttresses. Other buttresses rise above the eaves height at each corner of the hall and in the centre of each elevation. On the south elevation each service wing has a porch with diagonal buttresses, elliptical arches and crenellated parapets above. The west service wing has two two-light windows to the south elevation, a door and a mix of one and two light windows to the left return, and one blocked and one three-light window to the rear elevation. The east service wing has a door and a two-light window east of the porch, three two-light windows to the right return, and two casement windows to the rear elevation.

INTERIOR: the hall can be accessed from either service wing. It has a wooden floor and an elliptical-arched ceiling with beams springing from external buttresses. Each three-light window has leaded lights and a stained glass shield towards the top of the central light. The west wall has a centrally-placed war memorial affixed depicting the Roll of Honour. Doors in the hall's east wall give access to storage space. The east service wing contains the parish office recently subdivided into offices, kitchen and WC. The east service wing has a small entrance hall, kitchen, storeroom, WC and a staircase giving access to two small upper rooms.