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St Peter's Church, Leck 
St Peter's Church, Leck, from the northwestLocation in Lancashire
St Peter's Church, LeckCoordinates: 54°11′02″N 2°32′54″W / 54.1838°N 2.5484°W OS grid reference SD 643 766 Location Leck, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter, Leck Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 4 December 1985 Architect(s) Paley and Austin (1878–79)
Austin and Paley
(1915 rebuilding)Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Specifications Materials Sandstone, slate roofs Administration Parish Tunstall, Melling and Leck Deanery Tunstall Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York Clergy Curate(s) Canon Professor R. Hannaford Priest(s) Revd M. H. Cannon Laity Churchwarden(s) Jane Greenhalgh St Peter's Church, Leck, is located in the village of Leck, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with those of St Wilfrid, Melling, St John the Baptist, Tunstall, St James the Less, Tatham, the Good Shepherd, Lowgill, and Holy Trinity, Wray, to form the benefice of East Lonsdale.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building,[2]
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History
The first church on the site was built in 1610; it was a small single-storeyed building. In 1825 it was extended and a small tower was added.[1] The present church was built in 1878–79, being designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. It was damaged by fire in 1913 and rebuilt in 1915, it is said accurately to the original design, by the successors in the Lancaster practice, Austin and Paley.[3][4]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed in sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave with a north aisle and a timber south porch, a chancel at a lower level with a vestry on the north side, and a west tower. The tower is in two stages, and is surmounted by a plain parapet and an octagonal slated spire. In the lower stage is a three-light west window containing Perpendicular tracery. The upper stage contains single-light bell openings. Along the south wall of the nave are four-light windows, and the chancel wall contains windows of three lights and one light. The east window has eight lights.[2]
Interior
Inside the church a five-bay arcade divides the nave from the north aisle. The timber roof is open. The sandstone font is octagonal.[2] Much of the stained glass survived the fire,[1] and it was reinstated by Powells who used Henry Holiday's original drawings.[3] The original organ was built some time between 1850 and 1881 by Henry Jones. The present two-manual organ was built in 1915 by Harrison & Harrison.[5] The ring consists of five bells, all cast in 1914 by John Taylor & Co.[6]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
- List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1914)
References
- ^ a b c St Peter, Leck, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/leck-st-peter/, retrieved 1 September 2011
- ^ a b c "Church of St Peter, Leck", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1164964, retrieved 1 September 2011
- ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 419, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, pp. 85, 95, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ Lancashire, Leck, St. Peter (D01819), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D01819, retrieved 1 September 2011
- ^ Leck, S Peter, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=leck&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=LECK, retrieved 1 September 2011
Categories:- Diocese of Blackburn
- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Paley and Austin buildings
- Austin and Paley buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in Lancashire
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