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New St Leonard's Church, Langho 
West end of New St Leonard's Church, LanghoLocation in Lancashire
New St Leonard's Church, LanghoCoordinates: 53°48′37″N 2°26′21″W / 53.8102°N 2.4393°W Location Between Langho and Billington, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Leonard, Langho History Consecrated 1880 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1879 Completed 1880 Construction cost £4,600 Administration Parish Langho Deanery Whalley Archdeaconry Blackburn Diocese Blackburn Province York Laity Churchwarden(s) David Holt, Carole Maher New St Leonard's Church, Langho, is located in Whalley New Road between the villages of Langho and Billington in Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.[1]
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History
The church was built in 1879–80 at a cost of £4,600 (£340,000 as of 2011).[2] It was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin[3] It was built to replace Old St Leonard's Church that was sited 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north. After the old church was built, the population had grown and become more concentrated around the railway to the south of the old church. The old church is now redundant, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, although occasional services are still held.[4]
Architecture
The plan of the church consists of a nave with a south aisle, and a chancel with a vestry to the north. At the west end is a slated bellcote. Under the east window is flushwork. Inside the church, between the nave and the aisle, is a four-bay arcade carried on clustered piers. The stained glass was made by Abbott and Company in 1935.[3] The two-manual organ was built in 1882 by John Laycock of Keighley, and has since been overhauled by J. W. Walker.[5]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ St Leonard, Langho, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/langho-st-leonard/, retrieved 2 September 2011
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 107, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ Historical Aspects of the Parish, Parish Church of St Leonard Langho, http://www.stleonardslangho.org.uk/history.htm, retrieved 2 September 2011
- ^ Lancashire, Langho, St. Leonard, Longsight Rd, (S00064), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=S00064, retrieved 2 September 2011
Categories:- Diocese of Blackburn
- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Paley and Austin buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in Lancashire
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