Church Of Holy Ghost

SD 68 NW MIDDLETON A683 (West side)

13/153 Church of Holy Ghost

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Church. 1878-9. By C.J. Ferguson. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof with tile crest. Single vessel nave and chancel with small north vestry. Coped gables with crosses, coping and weathered buttresses to wall between nave and chancel, gabled bellcote has gabled buttresses and cinquefoil bell opening. South facade has 4 straight-headed windows with tracery and label moulds, that to eastern bay has 2 cusped panels beneath; 3-light window to 2nd bay of nave has hoodmould and cusped lights. West end has 2-light window with segmental-pointed head and hood. North facade has small gabled vestry with 2-light cross-mullioned window with cusped upper lights; lean-to porch to west, the entrance with decorative sinking to lintel; adjoining buttress has light to porch. Nave has 3-light window to eastern bay, as above, and 2 straight-headed windows, as above to 2nd bay. Western bay has pointed entrance with continuous moulding. East end has 3-light window, the central light large and round-headed, probably designed to fit existing stained glass window. Interior: Single-rafter roof has scissor and collar braces. Octagonal font with quatrefoil panels and lettering, enriched flat cover. Western screen with segmental central opening. Cusped lights and brattishing. Double-chamfered chancel arch, the inner chamfer on corbels. Enriched timber pulpit and lectern in C16 style. Tracery fronts to stalls. South seat recess between window. Reredos in C16 style. North vestry door and wall memorial to Anne Moore (died 1772), fluted pilasters, frieze and broken pediment and apron. Late C19 stained glass, east window has 3 lights dated 1862, the tracery lights later.

Listing NGR: SD6230786191