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Nazareth Unitarian Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Padiham, Lancashire

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Latitude: 53.8005 / 53°48'1"N

Longitude: -2.3203 / 2°19'13"W

OS Eastings: 379001

OS Northings: 433848

OS Grid: SD790338

Mapcode National: GBR DS7H.GC

Mapcode Global: WH96R.BQBT

Plus Code: 9C5VRM2H+6V

Entry Name: Nazareth Unitarian Church

Listing Date: 12 February 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1238377

English Heritage Legacy ID: 414884

ID on this website: 101238377

Location: Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire, BB12

County: Lancashire

District: Burnley

Civil Parish: Padiham

Built-Up Area: Burnley

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Padiham with Hapton and Padiham Green

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


SD 73 SE PADIHAM CHURCH STREET (south side)

3/35 Nazareth Unitarian Church

- II


Unitarian Church. 1872 by Virgil Anderton, a member of the congregation.
Coursed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and spire. Slate roofs
with gable copings. Built on a slope above school rooms in basement,
cruciform plan with tower over porch to left and single-storey porch to
right. Most details from the transition between Geometrical and
Curvilinear. Facade has, below, a tall 3-light window with a quatrefoil,
flanked by 2 lancets, and, above, a 4-light window subdivided into 2 pairs
with a sexfoil. Openwork cross on gable and above East end. Doorway with
shafted responds and crocket capitals and tympanum carrying datestone.
4-stage tower carries a short octagonal spire with a band of sunk
quatrefoils below 4 blind lucarnes; junction of tower and spire cleverly
concealed by 4 sturdy octagonal turrets and by gables rising above the
bell-openings which have plate tracery. Interior has a broad nave under
hammerbeam roof with remarkably slender trusses, shallow transpets with
galleries, and a lower, aisled chancel lit by a 4-light window whose lower
central lights have 3 quatrefoils in a circle above.


Listing NGR: SD7900133848

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