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St Margaret's Church, Hornby 
St Margaret's Church, Hornby, from the southeastLocation in Lancashire
St Margaret's Church, HornbyCoordinates: 54°06′41″N 2°38′10″W / 54.1114°N 2.6362°W Location Hornby, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website Hornby, St Margaret Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade I Designated 4 October 1967 Architect(s) Paley, Austin and Paley (restoration) Architectural type Church Style Gothic, Gothic Revival Completed 1889 Specifications Capacity 290 Length 93 feet (28 m) Nave width 38.5 feet (12 m) Number of spires 1 Spire height 66 feet (20 m) Materials Sandstone ashlar Administration Parish Hornby with Claughton Deanery Tunstall Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Rev Iain H. Rennie St Margaret's Church, Hornby is in the village of Hornby, Lancashire, England. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the deanery of Tunstall. Its benefice is combined with those of St Michael, Whittington, St John, Arkholme, and St John, Gressingham.[2]
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History
A church was on the site in 1338.[3] The oldest part of the current church is the tower which was built by Sir Edward Stanley, Lord Mounteagle, in 1514. Lord Mounteagle also arranged for the rebuilding of the chancel but this was incomplete when he died in 1524. In 1817 the old nave was demolished and replaced by a new nave.[4] In 1889 a restoration was carried out by Paley, Austin and Paley.[1] This consisted of the erection of north and south arcades and a clerestory, the removal of the west gallery, and the replacement of box pews by modern seating.[4]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in sandstone ashlar and its plan consists of a west tower, a nave and chancel under a continuous roof with a clearstory, and north and south aisles. The tower has three stages and is octagonal with the two upper stages being set diagonally to the base. Its parapet is embattled with pinnacles. The middle stage has a clock and a plaque carved with the Mounteagle arms. The nave and aisles have embattled parapets. At the east end is a semi-octagonal apse.[1]
Interior
In the church is a monument to Dr Lingard, the Roman Catholic priest from St Mary's Church, Hornby, who died in 1851. Also in the church are two fragments of Anglo-Saxon crosses.[5] The organ was built by Abbott and Smith and moved to St Margaret's from Hornby Castle in 1899. It was renovated by Ainscough around 1950 and restored by Harrison & Harrison in 1986.[6] The ring consists of eight bells. Six of these were cast by Abel Rudhall in 1761 and the other two by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1922.[7] The parish register of baptisms begins in 1742 and that of burials in 1763.[4]
External features
In the churchyard is a sandstone Anglo-Saxon cross base which is listed Grade II*.[8]
References
- ^ a b c "Church of St Margaret, Hornby", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1071657, retrieved 17 May 2011
- ^ Hornby, St Margaret, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hornby-st-margaret/, retrieved 27 October 2008
- ^ Hornby St Margaret, Diocese of Blackburn, http://www.blackburn.anglican.org/, retrieved 29 April 2008
- ^ a b c Farrer, William; Brownbill, J. (eds.) (1914), Townships: Hornby, A History of the County of Lancaster, 8, pp. 191–201, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53296#s5, retrieved 29 April 2008
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) [1969], North Lancashire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 146–147, ISBN 0-300-09617-8
- ^ Hornby St. Margaret, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D01796, retrieved 14 August 2008
- ^ Information Sheet, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Hornby&Submit=++Go++&DoveID=HORNBY+LAN, retrieved 14 August 2008
- ^ "Cross base south of Church of St Margaret, Hornby", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1071658, retrieved 17 May 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade I listed churches
- Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire
- English Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- 1514 architecture
- 1817 architecture
- Buildings and structures completed in 1889
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Buildings and structures in Lancaster
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