Description

HESKETH WITH BECCONSALL LANE
SD 42 SE
BECCONSALL
4/1 Old Church of All Saints
11-10-1968
GV II

Church. Rebuilt 1764 on site of former chantry; altered. Red brick in
English garden wall bond, stone slate roof. Rectangular 2-bay plan with
small sanctuary. West gable has small C20 brick porch covering a chamfered
round-headed inner door, 2 round-headed gallery windows with radiating
glazing bars, small bellcote on the apex (no bell); side walls have 2 large
round-headed windows with altered glazing (circular tracery in the heads);
very short sanctuary has large Venetian window in stone frame, gauged brick
head with triple keystone. Small added vestry at north-east corner.
Interior: wooden C18 west gallery supported by 4 fluted wooden pillars,
with moulded frieze, panelled front; pulpit in matching style; communion
rail with turned balusters, fluted gateposts (gate missing); Cl8 vase font
of Coade stone.

Listing NGR: SD4522523217

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Becconsall Old Church at Wikipedia
• Becconsall Old Church official website
• Wikidata Q4878536

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)