| All Saints Church, Higher Walton | |
All Saints Church, Higher Walton, from the southeast
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All Saints Church, Higher Walton
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| OS grid reference | SD 578 274 |
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| Location | Higher Walton, Lancashire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | All Saints, Higher Walton |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Designated | 27 February 1984 |
| Architect(s) | E. G. Paley Paley and Austin |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1861 |
| Completed | 1871 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Rock-faced stone, slate roofs |
| Administration | |
| Parish | All Saints, Higher Walton |
| Deanery | Leyland |
| Archdeaconry | Blackburn |
| Diocese | Blackburn |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Revd Simon John Hunt |
All Saints Church, Higher Walton, stands in Blackburn Road in the village of Higher Walton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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The church was built between 1861 and 1864 to a design by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley at a cost of £6,000 (£440,000 as of 2012).[3] The steeple was added in 1871 by the partnership of Paley and Austin.[4]
All Saints is constructed in rock-faced stone, and it has slated steeply-pitched roofs. The architectural style is Early English. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel in one range, a south aisle with a porch, a north transept and sacristy. The chancel ends in a three-sided apse. At the west end is a tower with diagonal buttresses, a north stair turret, and a broach spire. On the west side of the tower is a three-light window, and in the upper part is a two-light bell opening on each side. The spire has a clock face under a gablet on each cardinal side.[2] At the east end of the aisle is a wheel window.[4] The other windows have two lights.[2]
Inside the church is an arcade of three short piers with capitals carved with different foliage designs. On the chancel walls are painted geometrical patterns, and on the ceiling are painted panels.[2] The stained glass in the north transept dates from 1877 and is by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. Elsewhere there is 20th-century stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt.[4] The two-manual organ was built in 1873 by W. E. Richardson of Preston, and overhauled by the same firm in 1909. It was restored by Peter Collins in 2003–04.[5] The ring consists of eight bells, all cast by John Taylor & Co between 1871 and 1928.[6]