Description

TF 26 NW THORNTON CHURCH LANE
(west side)

3/139 Church of
St. Wilfred
14.9.66
II

Parish church. C15, heavily restored in 1890 by Ewan Christian.
Green sandstone rubble blocks, limestone ashlar dressings. Plain
tiled roofs with overhanging eaves, bargeboards and wrought iron
cross finials; tall ashlar polygonal stack to north-east with
tiny pointed openings; bell supported by timberframe hung in
west gable. Nave with south porch, chancel with north vestry.
West end with pointed C19 window with 3 pointed, cusped lights
and hood mould. North side of nave with 2 C19 rectangular
windows, that to right of 2 lights, that to left of 3 lights, all
with cusped ogee shaped heads. North side of C19 vestry with
slit light; east side with doorway with plank door. East end of
chancel with diagonal, single stage buttresses and Cl9 pointed
window with 3 pointed, cusped lights and hood mould. South side
of chancel with rectangular, 3 light window with cusped ogee
shaped heads. 3 stage buttress defines nave from chancel. Nave
with 2 rectangular windows each with 2 cusped ogee headed lights.
Gabled, timberframed C19 porch to west with ornate bargeboard,
return walls each with 4 trefoil headed lights, doorway with
flattened triangular head and mesh doors. C19 inner doorway with
moulded, pointed head, chamfered jambs, hood mould and double
plank doors. C19 pointed chancel arch with double chamfered head
and inner corbelled order. C19 roofs. C20 pews, pulpit and
font. 4late C18 ornate wrought iron hat hooks, each with 2
transoms supporting 4 hooks each, a central vertical shaft and
scrollwork.

Listing NGR: TF2441267845

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553259

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)