St Michael's Church, Grimsargh

St Michael's Church, Grimsargh

St Michael's Church, Grimsargh, from the east
St Michael's Church, Grimsargh
Location in Lancashire
OS grid reference SD 582 338
Location Grimsargh, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Michael, Grimsargh
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 11 November 1966
Architect(s) Paley and Austin
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Administration
Parish St Michael Grimsargh
Deanery Grimsargh
Archdeaconry Preston
Diocese Blackburn
Province York

St Michael's Church, Grimsargh, is in the village of Grimsargh, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Grimsargh, the archdeaconry of Preston, 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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History

A chapel was built on the site of the present church in 1716, and a north aisle and a chancel were added in 1840.[3] Between 1868 and 1871 the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin carried out work on the church.[4] They retained the earlier parts of the church and added a new nave and a tower.[3]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in sandstone and has slate roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a north aisle, a single-bay chancel, a north vestry, and a west tower. The architectural style is Decorated. The tower is in three stages, with a stair turret to the southeast and angle buttresses. In the top stage are three-light bell openings, and the tower is surmounted by a battlemented parapet and a pyramidal roof. Along the south side of the church are two-light windows and a gabled porch. The east window has three lights. In the wall of the north aisle are two-light square-headed windows. The vestry has a north doorway, and there are two windows in the east wall.[2]

Interior

Internally, the arcade is carried on octagonal piers. The nave has a barrel roof. In the chancel there are two sedilia with trefoil heads.[2] The church contains two fonts. One of these consists of an octagonal bowl on a fluted base, dating possibly from the 18th century; the other is a 19th-century tub. The stained glass in the east window dates from 1954 and is by Shrigley and Hunt.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ St Michael, Grimsargh, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/grimsargh-st-michael/, retrieved 22 July 2011 
  2. ^ a b c "Parish Church of St Michael, Grimsargh", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1361661, retrieved 22 July 2011 
  3. ^ a b c Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 314–315, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9 
  4. ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 83, ISBN 1-86220-054-8