Church Of St Andrew

PRESTON

SD53SW BLACKPOOL ROAD, Ashton On Ribble 941-1/1/309 (South side) 27/09/79 Church of St Andrew

GV II

Parish church of Ashton-on-Ribble. 1836, enlarged and altered 1873-4 by Ewan Christian, vestry added 1902. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roofs. Nave, chancel, small west tower; wide north aisle added 1874, north organ house dated 1874 on rainwater head; vestry beyond this dated 1902 similarly. Romanesque tower, otherwise simple Early English style. Square 3-stage tower with clasping buttresses to 1st stage, set-back belfry stage, and short broach spire; 2 round-headed lancets to the 1st stage, one similar but larger window to the 2nd stage, with a hoodmould, and triple round-headed louvred lancets to the belfry. Nave, 4 bays, with buttresses (except at corners), has 2-centred arched windows with hoodmoulds and simple plate-tracery, all 2 lights except that in wider east bay which has 3 lights. North aisle in matching style, with gabled porch to west bay. INTERIOR: nave and aisle have arch-braced king-post roofs with curved struts; round-headed tower arch; 4-bay aisle arcade with stout cylindrical piers of polished pink granite carrying low 2-centred double-chamfered arches; chancel arch similar but larger, and with semi-columns of polished granite; chancel with sedilia, north arch to organ house, and wagon roof. Good wall monuments to various members of the Pedder family of Ashton Lodge (Pedder Lane, q.v.), including: Jane Pedder (d.1838), wall tablet surmounted by draped urn; James Pedder (d.1846), large monument with white tablet in sarcophagus form surmounted by woman weeping over broken Corinthian column (both these by C.Lewis of Cheltenham); Captain Thomas Pedder (d.1858), a white marble relief with sarcophagus flanked by military weepers and with inscription recording that he died of sunstroke after participating in the Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny (by H.Weekes); Richard Newsham Pedder of 8th Irish Hussars, (d.Calcutta 1863), wall tablet surmounted by trophies, helmets etc; also Herbert Davies M.B.,CH.B. (d.1900) in Orange River Colony, of dysentery, while serving as civil surgeon in Transvaal War, wall tablet with profile in relief.

Listing NGR: SD5158930531