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St Nicholas' Church, Wrea Green
St Nicholas' Church, Wrea Green, from the southLocation in Lancashire Coordinates: 53°46′38″N 2°54′56″W / 53.7773°N 2.9155°W OS grid reference SD 397 316 Location Wrea Green, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Nicholas,
Wrea GreenHistory Dedication Saint Nicholas Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 11 June 1986 Architect(s) Sharpe and Paley,
Paley and AustinArchitectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1715 Completed 1884 Administration Parish Ribby cum Wrea St Nicholas Deanery Kirkham Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York Clergy Priest(s) Rev R. W. Marks Laity Reader Mrs B. Cooper-Longworth,
Mr A. BrindleChurchwarden(s) Mr T. Slater,
Mr J. W. DobsonSt Nicholas' Church, Wrea Green, is in the village of Wrea Green, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kirkham, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is combined with those of St Matthew, Ballam, and St Michael, Weeton.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church was founded in 1715.[3] It was rebuilt in 1848–49 by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley.[4] In 1884 the tower and spire were added by the successors in the same practice, Paley and Austin.[5]
Architecture
Exterior
St Nicholas' church is constructed in sandstone rubble and has blue slate roofs. Its architectural style is Early English. The plan consists of a four-bay nave, with a tower attached to its south side, and a chancel with two short bays. The tower is in three stages and has a south doorway and a polygonal stair turret at its northwest corner. The middle stage contains a gabled niche containing a statue, and in the top stage are three-light louvred bell openings. On the tower is a broach spire with a two-light lucarne on each cardinal side.[2] The windows in each bay of the nave consist of a pair of lancet windows with a circular window at the top. In the chancel is a three-light east window containing Geometrical tracery, and two double lancets on the south side. The west window consists of a double lancet above which is a sexfoil rose window.[6]
Interior
Inside the church is a carved and gilded reredos and a stone pulpit. The east window contains stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt.[5] The two manual organ was made in 1988 by Sixsmith, replacing an earlier organ by T. and C. Lane dating from about 1880.[7]
See also
- List of works by Sharpe and Paley
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ St Nicholas, Ribby w Wrea, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/ribby-wrea-st-nicholas/, retrieved 12 August 2011
- ^ a b "Church of St Nicholas, Ribby with Wrea", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1072037, retrieved 12 August 2011
- ^ St Nicholas, Wrea Green, GENUKI, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/RibbywithWrea/StNicholas.shtml, retrieved 21 June 2010
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 71, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], The Buildings of England. Lancashire: North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 571, ISBN 978 0 300 12667 9
- ^ Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, p. 221
- ^ Lancashire, Wrea Green, St. Nicholas (S00084), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=S00084, retrieved 12 August 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Religious buildings completed in 1884
- 19th-century Church of England church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Sharpe and Paley buildings
- Paley and Austin buildings
- Buildings and structures in Fylde (borough)
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