Church Of St Andrew

ACCRINGTON EMPRESS STREET SD 72 NW 4/15 Church of St. Andrew - - II

Church, 1912-13, by Grimshaw and Cunliffe. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, banded slate roof. Aisled nave as one vessel, ([he roof swept out over the aisles), gabled double transepts embraced by nave roof, chancel flanked by side chapel and vestry, south east tower; in Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. South end has large traceried window crossed by a panel of blind arcading, stepped bands in the gable above; left of the 1st bay is a Tudor-style porch with exaggerated chequered parapet, right of it is tower which Tudor-arched doorway on east side, chequered 1st floor band, diagonal buttresses, coupled 2-light belfry openings, and simplified battlements. Aisles have 3 large segmental headed windows, transepts have tall arched windows, both with idiosyncratic perpendicular tracery. Interior of pink sandstone, has 5-bay aisle arcades on slim octagonal columns, transverse arches to transepts; carved wooden screen to side chapel set in elegant arcade with panelled spandrels. Wagon roof to nave, king-post roof to chancel.

Listing NGR: SD7487828617