Church Of St Patrick

SD 58 SW, 4/57

PRESTON PATRICK A65 (off East side), Crooklands, Church of St Patrick

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Formerly known as Church of St Gregory. Parish Church. 1852 by Sharpe and Paley on site of earlier church; chancel rebuilt 1892. Incorporates C15 window in tower and niches in chancel from original church. Squared limestone blocks with roughly-cut limestone dressings to nave, sandstone dressings to chancel; graduated slate roof with stone ridge and copings. Perpendicular style. West Tower, nave with North aisle, chancel and vestry. Chamfered plinth and cornice; square 4-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, string to each stage, bell openings to all sides of 4th stage, battlemented parapets and octagonal stair turret, rising to higher level at south-west corner, with slit windows and pointed-arched head to door. Gabled South porch with slate roof and stone copings; depressed arch to doorway with hoodmould and heavy roughly-dressed stone labels.

INTERIOR: Nave has 4-bay A-frame roof with curved braces, chancel has one bay barrel-vaulted roof. Three 3-light windows to North aisle, three 2-light windows to South of nave and one 2-light window in chancel, 4-light West window and 4-light East window with stained glass representing Saints; variety of other late C19 and early C20 glass including central window in South side of nave by Heaton Butler and Bayne of London. Pulpit commemorates death of William Henry Wakefield of Sedgwick House in 1889. Prominent landscape feature dominating surrounding area.

Listing NGR: SD5370483520