Description

BURNLEY

SD8033 PADIHAM ROAD
906-1/6/111 (North side)
29/09/77 Church of All Saints

GV II

Church. c1846-9. By Weightman and Hadfield. Sandstone ashlar,
with graduated slate roofs. Simplified Decorated style. Nave
with west steeple, north and south aisles, south porch, north
and south chapels, chancel with north vestry.
EXTERIOR: the large 3-stage west tower, which is embraced by
the aisles, has angle buttresses, a 2-centred arched west
doorway with 2 orders of moulding and a trefoil-headed
opening; a large 2-centred arched 4-light west window with
elaborate moulding and multifoil tracery; 2-light belfry
windows; corner grotesques; and a tall broach spire with
lucarnes. The buttressed 5-bay south aisle has a gabled porch
to the 2nd bay, with a 2-centred arched doorway and a vacant
niche above this; and 2-light windows with cusped lights and
varied multifoils in the heads; the chapel, to the right of
this aisle and flush with it, is gabled and has a 3-light
window; and all these openings have hood-moulds with large
block stops. The north aisle is similar. The 5-bay nave, with
lesenes and corbel tables, has one spherical-triangle
clerestory window in each bay. The 2-bay chancel has a priest
door, and windows of one and 2 lights in the south side, and a
5-light east window.
INTERIOR: 5-bay aisle arcades of low cylindrical piers with
moulded annular caps, and 2-centred double-chamfered arches
with hood-moulds linked by figured stops; common-rafter roof;
ornate chancel arch; Shuttleworth chapel to north; Dugdale
chapel to south.
HISTORY: paid for by the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall and
the Dugdales, cotton manufacturers of Lowerhouse (representing
the cooperation of landed and industrial wealth).
Forms group with associated gateway and wall (qv); and its
steeple is a very conspicuous feature of the skyline on this
side of Burnley.

Listing NGR: SD8092533488

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537582

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