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St Peter's Church, Mawdesley 
St Peter's Church, Mawdesley, from the westLocation in Lancashire
St Peter's Church, MawdesleyCoordinates: 53°37′25″N 2°46′24″W / 53.6236°N 2.7732°W OS grid reference SD 489 143 Location Church Lane, Mawdesley, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter Mawdesley Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 30 January 1987 Architect(s) Edmund Sharpe, Peter Balmer,
Richard Knill FreemanArchitectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1839 Completed 1892 Specifications Materials Sandstone, slate roof Administration Parish St Peter, Mawdesley Deanery Chorley Archdeaconry Blackburn Diocese Blackburn Province York Clergy Rector Rev David J. Reynolds Laity Reader Bill O'Neill, Derek Swann,
John Raynor, Mrs Janet MaggsOrganist(s) Mrs Margaret Smith Churchwarden(s) Brian Kay, Bob Gordon St Peter's Church, Mawdesley, is in Church Lane in the village of Mawdesley, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
St Peter's was built in 1839–40 and designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe. The chancel was added in 1878–79 by Peter Balmer, an architect from Ormskirk, and in 1892 it was restored by Richard Knill Freeman.[3]
Architecture
The church is constructed in sandstone with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave, a chancel, and a slender west tower that is partly embraced by the nave. The westernmost bay of the nave on the north side is gabled and contains lancet windows; its counterpart on the south has an arched doorway. The other bays are separated by buttresses and each contains a tall square-headed two-light window. The east window has five lights and is in Perpendicular style. The tower has diagonal buttresses. Its first stage is tall and originally had open arches on each side; these have been filled in and incorporate windows and a west door. Above is a single-light louvred bell-opening on each face, then a stepped parapet with crocketted pinnacles. It is surmounted by a slender octagonal spire. Inside the church is a west gallery supported by two cast iron columns.[2] The organ was built in about 1900 by Wilkinson and Son of Kendal.[4] The church is similar in design to the nearby Church of St John the Baptist, Bretherton designed by Sharpe at about the same time.[2][3]
See also
- List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe
References
- ^ St Peter, Mawdesley w Bispham, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/mawdesley-bispham-st-peter/, retrieved 9 April 2010
- ^ a b c "Church of St Peter, Mawdesley", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1072501, retrieved 18 May 2011
- ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 449, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ Lancashire, Mawdesley - St Peter, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=S00088, retrieved 9 April 2010
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1840
- 18th-century Church of England church buildings
- 1879 architecture
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Edmund Sharpe buildings
- Buildings and structures in Chorley
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