Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Hubert, and attached presbytery is a Grade II* listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Hubert, and attached presbytery
- WRENN ID
- sombre-entrance-crimson
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Hubert, with its attached presbytery, was built between 1857 and 1859 by Edward Welby Pugin. The church was constructed at the expense of James Lomax of Clayton Hall and Allsprings.
The church is built of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a steeply-pitched slate roof with fishscale bands. It comprises a nave, west steeple, transeptal aisles, and a three-sided apsidal chancel with a Lady Chapel, all designed in a "Middle Pointed" Gothic style. Most of the openings are enhanced by hoodmolds with figured stops. The three-stage tower, centrally located on the west side, features a splay-footed spire, angle buttresses, a shallow three-sided stair turret on its south side, a moulded arched doorway on the west side, and a niche containing a statue of Our Lady, topped with a crocketed gablet. The belfry openings have trefoils instead of louvres. Above the belfry, a cornice is adorned with ball flower ornament and gripping beasts at the corners. Decorative crocketed gablets grace the splay of the spire, with canopy-like forms sheltering figures at the corners and lucarnes elsewhere. The aisles (two bays, each with a gable) and the nave (two bays to the west, three to the east) possess buttresses and large five-light windows; the former windows have elongated trefoil tracery, while the latter have cinquefoil tracery. The south gable contains a larger five-light window with similar tracery, beneath which is an arched doorway. The apse has gablets on all sides, and the Lady Chapel features a three-light window.
Inside, the arch-braced roof rises from colonnettes, with scissor-bracing at the apex. A pulpit attached to the left side of the chancel arch is accessed via an arched tunnel through the pier, and a projecting gallery is located at the south end. A significant feature of the interior is a nearly complete set of stained glass windows by Hardman, depicting scenes from Genesis in the south window, various saints in the transepts, St. Hubert, Christ in Majesty, and Our Lady in the chancel, alongside foliated patterns in the nave. The attached presbytery, located at the north-west corner, is simpler in design but maintains a compatible style with various gables and tall chimneys.
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