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Latitude: 53.5927 / 53°35'33"N
Longitude: -2.7007 / 2°42'2"W
OS Eastings: 353715
OS Northings: 410913
OS Grid: SD537109
Mapcode National: GBR 9VLW.3T
Mapcode Global: WH86D.HY4M
Plus Code: 9C5VH7VX+3P
Entry Name: Church of St Joseph and Attached Presbytery
Listing Date: 19 August 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1361884
English Heritage Legacy ID: 357874
ID on this website: 101361884
Location: St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Hunger Hill, West Lancashire, WN6
County: Lancashire
District: West Lancashire
Civil Parish: Wrightington
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Wrightington with Heskin St James the Great
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Church building
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SD 51 SW
5/98
WRIGHTINGTON
CROW ORCHARD ROAD
Church of St Joseph and attached
Presbytery
II
Roman Catholic church and presbytery. 1892 by James Sinnott.
Sandstone rubble with slate roofs. Church comprises a nave, south porch,
north and south transepts, crossing tower, and apsidal chancel. Nave of 3
bays with windows of 2 trefoiled lights under a pointed head with
quatrefoil. Porch is gabled with outer doorway chamfered in 2 orders.
West window of 4 lights under a pointed head with tracery. Crossing tower
has pyramid roof. On each side are 2 bell openings of 2 lights with
pointed heads. The apse is 3-sided and has paired trefoiled lancet
windows. In the north wall of the north transept are 2 similar windows.
Above is a rose window. The south transept also has a rose window, above
a single-storey lean-to link to the presbytery. Projecting from the south
wall of the presbytery are 2 square bays under hipped roofs. Each has
sashed windows with no glazing bars separated by flat-faced mullions, of
2 lights on the ground floor and 3 lights on the 1st floor.Interior: nave
roof is boarded. The trusses have curved braces to collars and are
carried on corbels. The crossing arches are pointed and chamfered in 2
orders. The inner orders spring from semi-octagonal responds carried on
carved corbels. The south transept contains an organ. The north transept
is divided from the crossing by a timber screen. The chancel has
alabaster inlay below the level of the windows, which have stencil
decoration to the reveals. Behind the altar is an iron openwork canopy.
Listing NGR: SD5371510913
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