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Old St Leonard's Church, Langho 
Old St Leonard's Church, Langho, from the southeastLocation in Lancashire
Old St Leonard's Church, LanghoCoordinates: 53°49′06″N 2°27′20″W / 53.8182°N 2.4556°W OS grid reference SD 701 359 Location Langho, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website Churches Conservation Trust History Founded 1557 Architecture Functional status Redundant Heritage designation Grade I Designated 24 November 1966 Architectural type Church Style Gothic Groundbreaking 1557 Completed 1879 Specifications Materials Sandstone, stone slate roof Old St Leonard's Church, Langho, is a redundant Anglican church 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the village of Langho, Lancashire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2]
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History
The church was built in 1557, soon after the Reformation, at a time when few new churches were being built. It is thought that much of the stonework and some of the fittings came from nearby Whalley Abbey following the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[2][3] The church was restored in 1879, when a vestry was added.[1]
In 1880 a new church, also dedicated to St Leonard, was consecrated. The reason for relocation was because the population had grown and was more consecrated around the route taken by the railway in the villages of Billington and Langho. The original church is still used several times a year for special services.[4] The old church was vested in the Trust on 1 July 1990.[5]
Architecture
St Leonard's is constructed in sandstone with a stone slate roof. Its plan is simple, consisting of a nave with a continuous chancel, a north vestry and a south porch. On the gable at the west end is a bell cote and on the east gable is a cross. The west window has four lights with Perpendicular tracery. In the north and south walls are two three-light windows, and the east window, which dates from the 19th century, also has three lights. In the south wall is a piscina, and projecting from the north wall is a stoup.[1]
See also
- New St Leonard's Church, Langho
- Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire
- List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England
References
- ^ a b c "Chapel Of St Leonard, Billington", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1362341, retrieved 17 May 2011
- ^ a b St Leonard's Church, Old Langho, Lancashire, Churches Conservation Trust, http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Leonards-Church-Old-Langho-Lancashire/, retrieved 28 March 2011
- ^ Old Langho Church, Britain Express, http://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4245, retrieved 31 August 2010
- ^ Historical Aspects of the Parish, Parish Church of St Leonard Langho, http://www.stleonardslangho.org.uk/history.htm, retrieved 2 September 2011
- ^ (PDF) Diocese of Blackburn: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2010, p. 4, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810334/blackburn%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 3 April 2011
Further reading
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 478, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
Categories:- Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire
- Grade I listed churches
- 1557 architecture
- 16th-century Church of England church buildings
- English Gothic architecture
- Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
- Buildings and structures in Ribble Valley
- Religious buildings completed in 1879
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