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Church of St Elizabeth

A Grade II Listed Building in Aspull, Wigan

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5633 / 53°33'48"N

Longitude: -2.575 / 2°34'29"W

OS Eastings: 362014

OS Northings: 407567

OS Grid: SD620075

Mapcode National: GBR BWG7.BC

Mapcode Global: WH97S.FP2M

Plus Code: 9C5VHC7G+82

Entry Name: Church of St Elizabeth

Listing Date: 10 May 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1068422

English Heritage Legacy ID: 213567

Also known as: St Elizabeth of Hungary Church, Aspull

ID on this website: 101068422

Location: St Elizabeth's Church, Aspull, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN2

County: Wigan

Electoral Ward/Division: Aspull New Springs Whelley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Aspull

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Aspull St Elizabeth

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

Tagged with: Church building

Description


ASPULL BOLTON ROAD SD 60 NW (south side) 6/11 Church of - St. Elizabeth G.V. II Church. 1876. By James Medland Taylor and Henry Taylor. Common brick with red brick and stone dressings and slate roof with bands. Single vessel nave and chancel with south aisle under lean-to roof, west baptistry, chancel with south organ loft (ritual west is actual south). 4-bay nave has blind arcade to north with lancets with plain openings, paired to east. 3 large buttresses. Clerestory has sill band and pairs of paired lights. West end has brick with 4 lights on sill band and central blind light with brick calvary cross; pointed entrance with gablet over to south. Wheel window with flanking flat gabled buttresses with tracery; check work apex. Aisle has 3 lancets to west stepped up roof slope; paired lights and one big buttress; lean-to porch. Gabled organ loft has 2 lights and sexfoil under hood mould; buttress to right. Nave east gable has some crow stepping and octagonal bell turret, open timber stage and slate spire. 2-bay chancel has 3-light east window; north and south windows of 3 cusped lights. To north, west bay has 3 stepped lights under relieving arch. Vestry in angle of chancel and organ loft. Interior: arcade has round stone piers and arch-braced king and queen post roof. Polychrome brick patterns to walls. West end has 2 arched bays to vestry and baptistry. Round font has roundels and frieze on round pier with flat buttresses. Chancel arch with water leaf capitals on round brick shafts. Low wall with traceried arcading and canted front to pulp-it. Wrought iron rood. Boarded arched roof. Arch to organ loft and 2 sedilia to south, piscina to north. Stone reredos with canopy to cross. 7 hanging lights. Contemporary stalls.

Listing NGR: SD6201407567

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