Description

ACCRINGTON CANNON STREET
SD 72 NE
7/10 Baptist Church
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- II

Church, 1873. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, slate roof.
Aisled nave with transepts, 3-sided apse, south-east tower with spire.
Early English style; some windows lancets, others 2-centred with tracery,
quatrefoils etc. Entrance in south gable to road has gableted doorway
with moulded arch of 3 orders including marble shafts with foliated
sandstone capitals; above this a large traceried window of 5 cusped lights
with quatrefoils and cinquefoils in the head; left of gable is a narrow
turret topped by an octagonal arcaded lantern with a spirelet; right is
tall square 4-stage tower which has ashlar bands, arched doorway with 4
orders of moulding, a cinquefoil in each side, 2 very narrow lancets,
tall belfry with coupled lancets, pierced parapet with shafted octagonal
pinnacles, and octagonal spire with lucarnes. Four bay nave has triple
windows, aisles have 2-light windows with cinquefoil tracery. Large
transepts with lancets. Various offices at north end. Interior altered.
(History: see R.J.V. Wylie The Baptist Churches of Accrington and District
1923)

Listing NGR: SD7588328515

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Cannon Street Baptist Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26328650

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings