Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/11/2011

SD 51 SW
5/98

WRIGHTINGTON
CROW ORCHARD ROAD
Church of St Joseph and attached
Presbytery

II

Roman Catholic church and presbytery. 1892 by James Sinnott.
Sandstone rubble with slate roofs. Church comprises a nave, south porch,
north and south transepts, crossing tower, and apsidal chancel. Nave of 3
bays with windows of 2 trefoiled lights under a pointed head with
quatrefoil. Porch is gabled with outer doorway chamfered in 2 orders.
West window of 4 lights under a pointed head with tracery. Crossing tower
has pyramid roof. On each side are 2 bell openings of 2 lights with
pointed heads. The apse is 3-sided and has paired trefoiled lancet
windows. In the north wall of the north transept are 2 similar windows.
Above is a rose window. The south transept also has a rose window, above
a single-storey lean-to link to the presbytery. Projecting from the south
wall of the presbytery are 2 square bays under hipped roofs. Each has
sashed windows with no glazing bars separated by flat-faced mullions, of
2 lights on the ground floor and 3 lights on the 1st floor.Interior: nave
roof is boarded. The trusses have curved braces to collars and are
carried on corbels. The crossing arches are pointed and chamfered in 2
orders. The inner orders spring from semi-octagonal responds carried on
carved corbels. The south transept contains an organ. The north transept
is divided from the crossing by a timber screen. The chancel has
alabaster inlay below the level of the windows, which have stencil
decoration to the reveals. Behind the altar is an iron openwork canopy.

Listing NGR: SD5371510913

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26643832

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