Christ Church, Chatburn

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Christ Church, Chatburn
Romanesque revival
Groundbreaking1837
Completed1883
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseBlackburn
ArchdeaconryBlackburn
DeaneryWhalley
ParishChrist Church, Chatburn
Clergy
Priest(s)Revd Dr Judith Clark
Assistant priest(s)Revd Catherine Hale-Heighway
Laity
Churchwarden(s)Daphne Porter
David Ascroft

Christ Church is in the village of

Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn and the diocese of Blackburn.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

History

Construction of the church began in 1837, the architect being

consecrated on 18 September 1838 by the Bishop of Chester.[6]

On 3 May 1854 the spire was struck by lightning, damaging both the spire and the tower. In 1881 it was decided to enlarge the church, and the architect Frederick Josias Robinson, son of Dixon Robinson, who was practising in Derby, was commissioned to design and supervise this. The nave was widened by the addition of north and south aisles, and the chancel by the addition of a north transept, acting as an organ chamber, and a south transept, used as a choir vestry.[6] This was carried out in 1882–83.[3] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner remarks on the uniform architectural style used by the two architects, writing "all is so entirely of a piece".[9]

Architecture

The original parts of Christ Church are constructed in limestone with sandstone dressings and it has a slate roof; the spire is in sandstone.[2] The expansion of 1882–83 is in Runcorn red sandstone, with dressings in Bath stone.[6] The tower has three stages; the lowest stage has two blank arches on each side and two round-headed windows on the west front. There are similar windows on each side of both upper stages, and in the top stage are clock faces. The plan of the church consists of a west tower with a spire, a nave with north and south aisles and a south porch, and a chancel with a semicircular apse. Internally, at the west end is a gallery.[2] The two-manual organ was made by Brindley & Foster of Sheffield in 1890.[10]

External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of three soldiers of World War I, and a soldier and airman of World War II.[11]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne on 20 June.[7]

References

  1. ^ Christ Church, Chatburn, Church of England, retrieved 25 March 2010
  2. ^ a b c Historic England, "Christ Church, Chatburn (1163617)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 July 2013
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  4. ISBN 1-86220-054-8
  5. ^ Peart Robinson of Lancashire, Turtle Bunbury, retrieved 2 January 2012
  6. ^ a b c d Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 122, 125
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  8. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  9. ISBN 0-300-09617-8
  10. ^ Lancashire, Chatburn, Christ Church, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 25 March 2010
  11. ^ CHATBURN (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 13 February 2013
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