Description

SD 51 NE CHORLEY WELD BANK

5/73 Roman Catholic Church of St. Gregory - - II

Church, 1814-15, enlarged 1831, with facade 1845. Pebble-dashed brick with slate roof, ashlar aisles and north front. Nave; aisles; narthex and 4-stage tower with belfry. North front (in Italian Renaissance style) consists of single-storey pedimented narthex divided into 3 bays by panelled pilasters, the centre of the pediment broken by a pedimented 2nd storey (with corner pilasters and central coved niche with statue of Christ carrying cross); this forms the 2nd stage of the tower which has at 4th stage a belfry of 4 aedicules surmounted by a belvedere with ogee cap terminating in a cross; at ground floor level the centre of the facade has a round-headed entrance with voussoirs, Tuscan columns and fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and each flanking bay has a coved niche with a statue. North end of each aisle has a round-headed doorway with Tuscan columns. Nave has 5 lunettes; aisles have square tripartite windows except at south end which is of 3 stepped round-headed lights. Convex south end of nave has 3 blind round-headed arches with an impost band. Interior: wide nave and concave sanctuary in one vessel, the sanctuary having engaged giant Corinthian columns with blind round- headed panels between them; tops of similar Corinthian columns between lunettes of nave rise to moulded frieze and cornice with modillions which carry round the whole; flat panelled ceiling; gallery at north end carried on single and coupled Tuscan columns had entablature with egg-and-dart decoration and panelled parapet similarly decorated.

Listing NGR: SD5838815988

External Links

• Wikidata Q26644092

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