St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble

St Andrew's Church,
Ashton-on-Ribble

Steeple of St Andrew's
St Andrew's Church,
Ashton-on-Ribble
Location in Preston
53°46′08″N 2°44′10″W / 53.7689°N 2.7360°W / 53.7689; -2.7360Coordinates: 53°46′08″N 2°44′10″W / 53.7689°N 2.7360°W / 53.7689; -2.7360
OS grid reference SD 516 305
Location Blackpool Road,
Ashton-on-Ribble,
Preston, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Churchmanship Conservative Evangelical
Website www.standrewsashton.org.uk
History
Dedication Saint Andrew
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 27 September 1979
Architect(s) Ewan Christian (expansion)
Architectural type Church
Style Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1835
construction start: 1836
Completed 1902
Specifications
Materials Sandstone, slate roofs
Administration
Parish St Andrew, Ashton-on-Ribble
Deanery Preston
Archdeaconry Lancaster
Diocese Blackburn
Province York
Clergy
Minister(s) Revd James D. G. Nash
Laity
Reader(s) Dr. Brian Hitchen
Churchwarden(s) Dr. Brian Hitchen,
Mrs Christine Tognarelli
Parish administrator Mrs Janet Nash

St Andrew's Church is in Blackpool Road, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with that of St Michael and All Angels, Ashton-on-Ribble.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

History

The foundation stone of the church was laid on 20 August 1835, and the church was built in the 1836 consecrated on 7 October 1836 by the Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, bishop of Chester. At this time the church seated about 300 people.[3] In 1873–74 the architect Ewan Christian added a north aisle and converted the nave windows into Early English style. A vestry was added in 1902.[4]

Present day

St Andrew's Church is within the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England. As a parish that rejects the ordination of women, it receives alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Maidstone (currently Rod Thomas).[5]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in sandstone with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a wide north aisle, a north porch, a chancel with an organ chamber to the north, a vestry to the east, and a small west tower. The tower is in Romanesque style, and the rest of the church is in Early English style. The tower is in three stages, with buttresses, and a short broach spire. In the bottom stage are two round-headed lancet windows, with a similar but larger window in the middle stage. The bell openings are louvred, and consist of triple round-headed lancets. Along the sides of the nave and the aisle are three two-light windows, and a three-light window in the eastern bay.[2]

Interior

Inside the church, the arcade is carried on cylindrical piers of polished pink granite. In the chancel is a sedilia. On the wall of the church are monuments to members of the Pedder family.[2] The stained glass in the east window is by Hardman.[4] The three-manual organ was built in 1902 by Henry Willis & Sons. It was overhauled in 1969 by J. W. Walker, and again in 2001 by Wood of Huddersfield.[6]

External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of a Royal Air Force officer of World War I, and an Army Dental Corps officer and Royal Army Medical Corps sergeant of World War II.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ St Andrew, Ashton-on-Ribble, Church of England, retrieved 9 October 2011
  2. 1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of St Andrew, Preston (1207244)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 24 September 2013
  3. ↑ History of St Andrew's, St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble, retrieved 16 June 2015
  4. 1 2 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 549, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  5. ↑ "Spring Newsletter 2017" (pdf). bishopofmaidstone.org. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Lancashire, Preston--Ashton on Ribble, St. Andrew, Blackpool Road (N01834), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 9 October 2011
  7. ↑ ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE (ST. ANDREW) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 12 February 2013
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