Latitude: 53.7491 / 53°44'56"N
Longitude: -2.3751 / 2°22'30"W
OS Eastings: 375362
OS Northings: 428143
OS Grid: SD753281
Mapcode National: GBR CTV2.LS
Mapcode Global: WH973.H176
Plus Code: 9C5VPJXF+JX
Entry Name: Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 9 March 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1072758
English Heritage Legacy ID: 183825
Also known as: St Peter's Church, Accrington
ID on this website: 101072758
Location: St Peter's Church, Scaitcliffe, Hyndburn, Lancashire, BB5
County: Lancashire
District: Hyndburn
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Accrington
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Accrington St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Church building
ACCRINGTON RICHMOND STREET SD 72 NE Church of St. Peter 5/28 - - II
Church, 1886-9, by Henry Ross of Accrington. Sandstone, steeply- pitched slate roof. Nave and chancel under one roof, the junction distinguished by a gabled bellcote with a fleche; low aisles with gabled porches and cross roofs to chancel chapels. Detail mainly Geometrical. Gables flanked by deep buttresses which at west end carry above eaves to gablets and at east end have offsets; west window of 4 lights east window of 5 lights, each surmounted by a loft window and gable cross. Six-bay nave, with shallow buttresses to alternate bays, deeper buttresses to aisles; nave has arched 2-light windows, aisles have perpendicular-shaped windows with tracery; nave and chancel divided by plain buttresses which break through the eaves to gablets. Second bay of each aisle has low gabled porch with emphatic detail: moulded arch, gableted buttresses, prominent gable coping rising to a cross. Interior: nave arcade of alternately cylindrical and octagonal columns with foliated caps, double-chamfered arches; high moulded chancel arch; deeply-splayed reveals to clerestory windows; wagon roof with king posts and struts rising from an arch-braced tie- beam, the wall-posts supported by corbelled stone shafts.
Listing NGR: SD7536228143
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