Description

SD52NE WALTON LE DALE BROWNEDGE LANE

5/128 Roman Catholic Church of the
- Blessed Virgin Mary

- II

Church, 1892, by Peter Paul Pugin of Pugin and Pugin; steeple 1867-8 (Pevsner). Stone, slate roof. Early English style. South tower with splay-footed spire, nave with double transepts, and polygonal apsidal chancel embraced by a lower
ambulatory. Tower of 3 stages, with angle buttresses, arched and moulded
south doorway, 2 cusped lancets with cusped tracery in the head and linked
hoodmoulds, triple belfry louvres in square recess on each side; single
louvre with hoodmould in each splay of spire. Buttressed 4-bay nave with
cross gables to 3 bays; 7 tall lancets, and in each gable a round window
with 4 quatrefoils and a hoodmould. Buttressed transepts (and a flying
buttress to east transept) with double gables, two 3-light windows with
curvilinear tracery. Clerestorey of apse has arched windows with cusped lights
and mouchettes, linked by hoodmoulds; ambulatory has rectangular windows with
2 cusped lights. Various flat-roofed offices attached to west transepts link
with presbytery (which is not included in the item). Interior: hammerbeam
roof with tie-rods and arch-braced collars, the wall posts supported on slim
shafts; double transept arches, and transverse arches in the transepts, are
supported by polygonal columns and have hoodmoulds with figured stops; side
chapels open off transepts, (west transept arches now filled by glazed screen).
Wide chancel arch flanked by tall narrow arches leading into ambulatory of
polished columns with octagonal caps; ribbed tunnel vault roof to chancel.
Very ornate canopied reredos to each of 3 altars.

Listing NGR: SD5606126218

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26578329

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