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Latitude: 53.6366 / 53°38'11"N
Longitude: -2.6773 / 2°40'38"W
OS Eastings: 355315
OS Northings: 415782
OS Grid: SD553157
Mapcode National: GBR 9VRD.53
Mapcode Global: WH866.VV9G
Plus Code: 9C5VJ8PF+M3
Entry Name: Christ Church
Listing Date: 17 April 1967
Last Amended: 21 February 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1203609
English Heritage Legacy ID: 357532
ID on this website: 101203609
Location: Christ Church, Charnock Richard, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7
County: Lancashire
District: Chorley
Civil Parish: Charnock Richard
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Charnock Richard Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Church building
SD 51 NE CHARNOCK RICHARD CHURCH LANE
5/17 Christ Church
(Formerly listed as Church of Christ)
17.4.1967 II
Church, 1856-60, by Harrison of Wigan. Sandstone rubble, roof of
hexagonal slates in bands of blue and purple. West tower, nave, chancel
with polygonal apse. In mixed style: forms of c.1200 with late
Perpendicular details. Narrow 4-stage battlemented tower with diagonal
buttresses (crocketed gablets at 1st stage), deeply moulded Tudor-arched
west doorway with decorated spandrels, transomed 3-light west window in
moulded 2-centred arch with hoodmould; dripstone band; 3 moulded circular
clockfaces; 4 transomed 2-light belfry louvres; very prominent gargoyles
at the corners, Buttressed 5 bay nave with gabled porch to 2nd bay and
3-light windows in Perpendicular style; chancel has 2 similar windows and
coping pierced by mouchettes; 5-sided buttressed apse has transomed 2-light
windows with cinque-foils in the heads and a battlemented coping.
Interior: scissor-braced hammerbeam roof; dado of apse has Commandment
(etc) tables of glazed polychrome tiles; monumental effigy in white marble
of Mrs. Frances Darlington (d. 1897)by J. Nesfield Forsyth, 1903. History:
built by James Darlington, J.P.,D.C., coal mine proprietor.
Listing NGR: SD5531515782
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