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Christ Church, Bacup 
Christ Church, Bacup, from the southeastLocation in Lancashire
Christ Church, BacupCoordinates: 53°42′24″N 2°11′37″W / 53.7068°N 2.1935°W OS grid reference SD 873 233 Location Beech Street, Bacup, Lancashire Country English Denomination Anglican Website Christ Church, Bacup Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 30 November 1984 Architect(s) Sharpe and Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1854 Specifications Materials Sandstone rubble, slate roof Administration Parish Christ Church, Bacup Deanery Rossendale Archdeaconry Bolton Diocese Manchester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Rev D. Woodall Christ Church, Bacup, is in Beech Street, off Todmorden Road, Bacup, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church was built in 1854 for a local manufacturer, James Heyworth, and designed by the Lancaster firm of architects Sharpe and Paley.[3]
Architecture
Exterior
Christ Church is constructed in sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Its architectural style is Gothic Revival. The plan consists of a southwest tower, a four-bay nave with north and south aisles, a porch, and a clerestory, and a two-bay chancel. The tower is in three stages and has diagonal buttresses rising half way up the tower. At its southeast corner is a polygonal stair turret rising to a greater height than the tower and surmounted by a pinnacled lantern. It has a three-light west window in the lowest stage with smaller three-light windows in the middle stage on the west and south sides. The top stage contains two-light bell openings and at the top is a plain parapet. At the west end of the body of the church are triple two-light windows with a wheel window above them in the gable. At the east end is a triple lancet window.[2]
Interior
The reredos is in stone with blind arcades, crockets, and images of faces. The pulpit is in a similar style.[2][3] The church contains a pair of stained glass windows by Shrigley and Hunt.[3]
See also
- List of works by Sharpe and Paley
References
- ^ Christ Church, Bacup, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/bacup-christ-church/, retrieved 27 June 2010
- ^ a b c "Christ Church, Bacup", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1072858, retrieved 10 May 2011
- ^ a b c Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 90, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Religious buildings completed in 1854
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Anglican congregations established in the 19th century
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Anglican Diocese of Manchester
- Sharpe and Paley buildings
- Buildings and structures in Rossendale
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