Church Of St Saviour

SD 82 SE BACUP NEW LINE

7/39 Church of St. Saviour - GV II

Church, 1864-5, by Edward Wyndham Tarn (Pevsner). Rock-faced sandstone, steeply-pitched slate roof with bands of green fish-scale slates. Nave with north and south aisles, chancel with polygonal apse, very prominent north-east tower with broach spire; in Gothic style, with mostly plate tracery. Seven-bay nave and aisles; aisles have short buttresses, 2 windows in each bay as alternating pairs either of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoils in the head or single cusped lights, clerestory has coupled segmental pointed lights; at west end of north aisle is gabled porch with steeply-pitched roof and moulded arch. At east end of south aisle is a cross-gabled baptistery. West end is buttressed and has at lower level an arcade of 3+5+3 recessed 2-light windows, round windows over the outer groups, and in centre a large tripartite west window with 2 orders (with shaft rings) to flanking lancets and a large 3-light centre which has bar tracery in the head. Buttressed apse with trefoil-pierced parapet has moulded lancets containing bar tracery with trefoils in the heads. Three stage tower with polygonal stair turret has recessed 2-light belfry louvres, a Lombard frieze, and lucarnes to the spire. Interior: 7-bay nave arcade composed of slender polished columns with prominent moulded caps carrying double-chamfered 2-centred arches; clerestory-level wall shafts with moulded caps supporting cusped bracing to wagon roof. West gallery passing through 3rd bay of arcade. Windows of apse linked by blind arcading containing Commandment Tables etc; similar blind arcading to side walls of baptistery containing lettered panels: on east side commemorating John Holt of Stubbylee (q.v.) 1804-36 and other members of this family, on west side 1914-18 War Memorials. Beneath floor at east end is font for baptism by immersion.

Listing NGR: SD8664921962