All Saints Church, Higher Walton

All Saints Church, Higher Walton
All Saints Church, Higher Walton, from the southeast
All Saints Church, Higher Walton Location in Lancashire
Coordinates: 53°44′27″N 2°38′27″W / 53.7408°N 2.6407°W / 53.7408; -2.6407
OS grid reference	SD 578 274
Location	Higher Walton, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	All Saints, Higher Walton
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	27 February 1984
Architect(s)	E. G. Paley Paley and Austin
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1861
Completed	1871
Specifications
Materials	Rock-faced stone, slate roofs
Administration
Parish	All Saints, Higher Walton
Deanery	Leyland
Archdeaconry	Blackburn
Diocese	Blackburn
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Simon John Hunt

All Saints Church, Higher Walton, stands in Blackburn Road in the village of Higher Walton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, 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]

History

The church was built between 1861 and 1864 to a design by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley at a cost of £6,000 (£440,000 as of 2011).^[3] The steeple was added in 1871 by the partnership of Paley and Austin.^[4]

Architecture

Exterior

All Saints is constructed in rock-faced stone, and it has slated steeply-pitched roofs. The architectural style is Early English. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel in one range, a south aisle with a porch, a north transept and sacristy. The chancel ends in a three-sided apse. At the west end is a tower with diagonal buttresses, a north stair turret, and a broach spire. On the west side of the tower is a three-light window, and in the upper part is a two-light bell opening on each side. The spire has a clock face under a gablet on each cardinal side.^[2] At the east end of the aisle is a wheel window.^[4] The other windows have two lights.^[2]

Interior

Inside the church is an arcade of three short piers with capitals carved with different foliage designs. On the chancel walls are painted geometrical patterns, and on the ceiling are painted panels.^[2] The stained glass in the north transept dates from 1877 and is by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. Elsewhere there is 20th-century stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt.^[4] The two-manual organ was built in 1873 by W. E. Richardson of Preston, and overhauled by the same firm in 1909. It was restored by Peter Collins in 2003–04.^[5] The ring consists of eight bells, all cast by John Taylor & Co between 1871 and 1928.^[6]

See also

• List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
• List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

References

1. ^ All Saints, Higher Walton, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/higher-walton-all-saints/, retrieved 2 June 2011 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "Church of All Saints, South Ribble", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1290187, retrieved 2 June 2011 
3. ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 680, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9 
5. ^ Lancashire, Walton, Higher, All Saints (R00889), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00889, retrieved 2 June 2011 
6. ^ Higher Walton, All Saints, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=higher+walton&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=HIGHER+WAL, retrieved 2 June 2011