Former Church Of St Mark

PRESTON

SD5229 ST MARK'S ROAD 941-1/6/261 (South side) 27/09/79 former Church of St Mark

GV II*

Church, closed in 1983 and disused at time of survey. 1862-3, by E.G.Paley; tower added 1870. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Nave with north Decorated transepts, apsidal chancel, and tower in north-east angle. Decorated style. The 4-bay buttressed nave has a moulded sill-band carried round and hoodmoulds with block stops (some damaged and those on the north side partly boarded), and a plain parapet. The west front has massive buttresses with offsets embracing a 3-bay open porch which has plain stone columns with plain square caps carrying a gabled 2-centred arch and stilted side arches, and above this a large 2-centred arched 5-light window with a multifoil in the head and hoodmould with block stops. The transepts, almost full-height, each have 2 small 2-light windows and a large circular window above, that on the north side with wheel tracery and that on the south side with a plate-traceried multifoil surrounded by quatrefoils. The 3-sided apse has tall 2-light windows rising into gables. The tower, of 4 unequal stages with clasping buttresses to the first two and a narrow octagonal stair-turret at the south-east corner, has a tall 3rd stage with 2 very tall narrow 2-light traceried windows in each side (leaded glazing now damaged), and a shorter top stage with clasping corner pinnacles and two louvred 2-light belfry windows each under a steeply-pitched gablet rising through the pierced parapet. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms a group with 67 to 91 Wellington Street on south side (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5270729871