Description

BOLTON

SD70NW GREAT MOOR STREET
797-1/4/98 (South side)
Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick
with attached presbytery

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1861. Charles Holt, architect. Roughly
coursed and squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof
with scalloped bands. Presbytery is rubble faced with brick to
rear, slate roof. Nave with single aisle, and tower to
(liturgical) south-west. Presbytery adjoins the church to the
east.
EXTERIOR: 2 stage tower with short spire, clasping buttresses
to lower stage which has simple chamfered arched doorway in
south face of tower, with statue in niche above. Bell chamber
lights in upper stage which is chamfered to form octagonal
base for short copper spire. Asymmetrical west end, with roof
sweeping over north aisle, which has west doorway. 3-light
window of foiled lancets in west of nave, with rose window
above. 4-bay nave with low triple lancet window in western bay
(beneath gallery within), and paired foiled lancets in other
bays.
Presbytery is 3 storey, single-window range in asymmetrical
gable, with catslide roof to right over entrance in added
porch with quatrefoil window over. Canted bay window in main
gable to left with spired 2-light casement windows above, and
3-light window in gable apex.
INTERIOR: has 4-bay northern arcade with octagonal shafts on
high bases and double chamfered arches. Panelled wagon roof.
Western gallery. Simple chamfered chancel arch. Traceried
reredos with low relief panels each side. Stained glass in
east window, a depiction of the crucifixion. The interior of
the presbytery not inspected.
(BOE: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).

Listing NGR: SD7180108961

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Patrick's Church, Bolton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q23018808

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