Roman Catholic Church Of Our Lady And All Saints

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SD 41 SE 4/70

PARBOLD LANCASTER LANE Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and All Saints

(Formerly listed as Church of Our Lady and All Souls)

II Roman Catholic church. 1884 by E. Kirby. Sandstone rubble with slate roofs. Comprises a west tower with spire, nave with clearstorey, north and south aisles, south porch, lower chancel, north transept, south chapel, and south vestry. Tower has angle buttresses and corner pinnacles, a bell stage with trefoiled lancet openings, and a 4-light west window with traceried head. The stone spire has lucarnes. The nave is of 5 bays. The clearstorey windows are triple stepped lancets. The aisles are lit by trefoiled lancets, mostly paired, separated by buttresses. The porch has a moulded pointed outer doorway. At the east end of the chancel is a rose window. Interior: 5-bay nave arcades of pointed arches which have inner chamfers and outer mouldings, springing from round piers with moulded caps. The tower arch is pointed and chamfered in 4 orders which die into splayed responds. The chancel arch is also pointed and has paired engaged shafts as responds. The nave roof is boarded and has trusses with arched braces carried on corbelled wallposts. Arches open into the north transeptal chapel from the aisle and from the chancel. The south chapel has one arched entrance from the aisle and 2 arches opening into the chancel. The chancel has an arched ceiling divided by 2 ribs with stencil decoration. At the east end is a stone reredos with carved figures of saints and an elaborately carved and crocketed ciborium. BOE p187.

Listing NGR: SD4953410799