Description

SD 51 NE CHORLEY WELD BANK

5/73 Roman Catholic Church of
St. Gregory
-
- II

Church, 1814-15, enlarged 1831, with facade 1845. Pebble-dashed brick
with slate roof, ashlar aisles and north front. Nave; aisles; narthex
and 4-stage tower with belfry. North front (in Italian Renaissance style)
consists of single-storey pedimented narthex divided into 3 bays by
panelled pilasters, the centre of the pediment broken by a pedimented
2nd storey (with corner pilasters and central coved niche with statue of
Christ carrying cross); this forms the 2nd stage of the tower which has
at 4th stage a belfry of 4 aedicules surmounted by a belvedere with ogee
cap terminating in a cross; at ground floor level the centre of the
facade has a round-headed entrance with voussoirs, Tuscan columns and
fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and each flanking bay has a coved
niche with a statue. North end of each aisle has a round-headed doorway
with Tuscan columns. Nave has 5 lunettes; aisles have square tripartite
windows except at south end which is of 3 stepped round-headed lights.
Convex south end of nave has 3 blind round-headed arches with an impost
band. Interior: wide nave and concave sanctuary in one vessel, the
sanctuary having engaged giant Corinthian columns with blind round-
headed panels between them; tops of similar Corinthian columns between
lunettes of nave rise to moulded frieze and cornice with modillions which
carry round the whole; flat panelled ceiling; gallery at north end carried
on single and coupled Tuscan columns had entablature with egg-and-dart
decoration and panelled parapet similarly decorated.

Listing NGR: SD5838815988

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26644092

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)