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Immanuel Church, Feniscowles 
Immanuel Church, Feniscowles, from the southwestLocation in Lancashire
Immanuel Church, FeniscowlesCoordinates: 53°43′36″N 2°32′27″W / 53.7268°N 2.5408°W OS grid reference SD 644 257 Location Feniscowles, Blackburn, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website Immanuel, Feniscowles History Consecrated 10 October 1836 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 27 September 1984 Architect(s) Revd J. W. Whittaker (?) Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1835 Completed 1836 Specifications Materials Gritstone, slate roof Administration Parish Immanuel, Feniscowles Deanery Blackburn with Darwen Archdeaconry Blackburn Diocese Blackburn Clergy Vicar(s) Revd David Roscoe Assistant priest Revd Peter Hallett Laity Organist(s) Andrew Orr Churchwarden(s) Margaret Duckworth
Ken WinterburnParish administrator Karen Woods Immanuel Church, Feniscowles, is located in the village of Feniscowles, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Blackburn with Darwen, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.[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 1835–36. Its architect is uncertain.[3] In the Buildings of England series Hartwell and Pevsner credit the design to Revd J. W. Whittaker, the Vicar of Blackburn.[4] In the National Heritage List for England it is credited to Whittaker's cousin, the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe.[2] Whittaker certainly made the first design for the church, but whether this was replaced or amended by Sharpe is uncertain.[3] The church cost £1,000 (£80,000 as of 2011).[5] The foundation stone was laid on 5 February 1835 by William Feilden, who had given the land for the church, and paid £100 towards its construction.[6] The church was consecrated on 10 October 1836.[3] It was restored in 1931–32 by Austin and Paley, the successors in Sharpe's practice.[7] During the restoration the original box pews were removed, a pulpit and chancel screen were added, the lower part of the walls were panelled, and the church was re-floored.[6]
Architecture
Exterior
Immanuel Church is constructed in gritstone with a slate roof.[2] Its plan consists of a nave and chancel in one cell, a southwest porch, and a west tower with a spire.[4] The tower is short, in two stages, and is embraced by the nave. It has diagonal buttresses, a two-light west window, and rectangular louvred bell openings. The spire is set back and contains lucarnes.[2] There were originally eight pinnacles, but these were removed because of erosion.[6] The windows on the sides of the church are large and straight-headed, with Perpendicular tracery. The east window contains Decorated tracery.[4]
Interior
Inside the church is a west gallery carried on slim iron columns. The stained glass in the east window is dated 1861 and is possibly by Hardman & Co. On the north side of the church are windows dating from the early 20th century by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, and on the south side, dated 1907, are windows by Curtis, Ward and Hughes.[4] The two-manual organ in the west gallery was built by Jardine and Company in 1949, when some of the pipes from the earlier organ built in 1899 by Ernest Wadsworth were reused.[8] The church bell is an ancient Javanese bell whose origin is unknown.[6]
References
- ^ Immanuel, Feniscowles, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/wwwimmanuelfeniscowlesorg/, retrieved 12 September 2011
- ^ a b c d Church of Immanuel, Livesey (1163235). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ a b c Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, p. 115 Although this is self-published, it is a scholarly work and fully referenced throughout. (As of 2011 it is available only as a CD.)
- ^ a b c d Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 129, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ a b c d History, Immanuel Church, Feniscowles, http://www.immanuelfeniscowles.org/History.html, retrieved 12 September 2011
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 99, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ Lancashire, Feniscowles, Immanuel (N10939), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N10939, retrieved 12 September 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Religious buildings completed in 1836
- 19th-century Church of England church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Diocese of Blackburn
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