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Latitude: 53.6524 / 53°39'8"N
Longitude: -2.6333 / 2°37'59"W
OS Eastings: 358236
OS Northings: 417513
OS Grid: SD582175
Mapcode National: GBR BV16.PF
Mapcode Global: WH97C.JG7B
Plus Code: 9C5VM928+XM
Entry Name: Roman Catholic Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 21 February 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1072652
English Heritage Legacy ID: 357571
ID on this website: 101072652
Location: St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7
County: Lancashire
District: Chorley
Electoral Ward/Division: Chorley North West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chorley
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Chorley St George
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Church building
SD 51 NE CHORLEY MARKET STREET
5/56 Roman Catholic Church of St.Mary
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GV II
Church, 1853-4, by Joseph A. Hansom, with north-east tower 1894 by Pugin
and Pugin, apparently enlarged in early C20. Sandstone, with slate roof.
Nave (now embraced by flat-roofed aisles and long pitched-roof porch at
west end) with transepts and 3-sided apse. Most windows of nave and
transepts are of 2 cusped lights with a quatrefoil in the head, but west
window is 3 lights with elongated trefoil tracery, and north transept has
a large 5-light window with unusual slim Perpendicular tracery containing
elongated trefoils; apse has 3 groups of 3 small cusped lancets. Four-
stage tower attached in north-east angle has angle buttresses, diagonal
stair turret at north east corner which is polygonal in the upper half and
topped by a large pinnacle; in east side at 2nd level is an ornate niche
with traceried canopy continued as a demi-spire in the wall above; belfry
has 3-light openings with Perpendicular tracery; traceried parapet,
pinnacles. Interior nave has broad piers and depressed arches giving onto
aisles, no transept or chancel arch, but side chapels flanking sanctuary
have moulded 2-centred arches opening into transepts and sanctuary; nave
has ribbed wagon roof supported by hammerbeams and struts, sanctuary roof
has cusped braces and ribs.
Listing NGR: SD5823617513
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