St Barnabas' Church, Darwen

St Barnabas' Church, Darwen

St Barnabas' Church, Darwen
St Barnabas' Church, Darwen
Location in Blackburn with Darwen
Coordinates: 53°40′54″N 2°27′30″W / 53.6817°N 2.4584°W / 53.6817; -2.4584
Location Darwen, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Barnabas, Darwen
History
Dedication Saint Barnabas
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Paley and Austin
Architectural type Church
Completed 1884
Specifications
Materials Stone, Westmorland slate roof
Administration
Parish St Barnabas, Darwen
Deanery Blackburn with Darwen
Archdeaconry Blackburn
Diocese Blackburn
Province York
Clergy
Priest(s) Revd L. Collinson[1]

St Barnabas' Church is on Watery Lane, Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Blackburn with Darwen, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with that of St Mary, Grimehills.[2]

The church was built in 1884 as a mission church, and designed by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3] It cost £1,462 (equivalent to £140,000 in 2015),[4] and provided seating for 360 people.[5] It is constructed in stone, with a Westmorland slate roof. On the church is a bellcote with a pyramidal slated roof. Its windows are square-headed. The church contains stained glass windows dating from 1963 by Shrigley and Hunt.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Blackburn Diocesan Directory
  2. ↑ St Barnabas, Darwen, Church of England, retrieved 6 October 2011
  3. 1 2 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 269, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  4. ↑ UK Consumer Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", MeasuringWorth.com.
  5. ↑ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 234, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8


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