- St Bartholomew's Church, Great Harwood
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St Bartholomew's, Great Harwood 
Location in Lancashire
Coordinates: 53°47′24″N 2°24′19″W / 53.7901°N 2.4054°W OS grid reference SD 73387 32716 Location Great Harwood, Lancashire Denomination Anglican Architecture Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 11 July 1966 Administration Deanery Whalley Archdeaconry Blackburn Diocese Blackburn Province York St Bartholomew's Church is an Anglican church in the town of Great Harwood in Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn. It has been designated a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage.
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History
Historically, the township of Great Harwood was part of the ecclesiastical parish of Blackburn. There is mention of a parochial chapel of ease dedicated to St Lawrence at Great Harwood in sources from 1389.[1] A chantry to St Lawrence's was later formed by Thomas Hesketh of Martholme, and dedicated to St Batholomew.[2] The dedication of the chapel was subsequently changed to St Bartholomew.[1]
The tower of the present building probably dates from the 15th century.[3] Most of the rest of the church appears to date from the 16th century and may have been rebuilt by Thomas Hesketh of Martholme, who made additions to his home at that time.[4] Lancaster based architecture firm Paley and Austin added a chancel to the church in 1886.[5]
Assessment and administration
St Bartholomew's was designated a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage on 11 July 1966.[3] The Grade II* designation—the second highest of the three grades—is for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest".[6]
An active parish church in the Church of England, St Batholomew's is part of the diocese of Blackburn, which is in the Province of York. It is in the archdeaconry of Blackburn and the Deanery of Whalley.[7]
Architecture
Exterior
St Bartholomew's is built in the Perpendicular style of coursed rubble, with roofs of stone slate.[3] Its plan consists of a nave with a west tower, aisles and a chancel to the east. There is a porch to the south and a vestry to the north.[1] The tower has four stages and diagonal buttresses. There is a stair turret at the south east corner, and a crenellated parapet.[4] There is a three-light west window under a pointed arch head, with a moulding. There are two-light belfry louvres with moulding.[3]
The nave and aisles have three-light windows with stone mullions[3] In the south wall of the chancel there are two two-light windows. The east window has four lights and Perpendicular-style tracery.[1]
Interior and fittings
Internally, the tower measures 9 feet (2.7 m) by 10 feet (3.0 m).[1] The nave measures 66 feet 9 inches (20.3 m) by 15 feet 6 inches (4.7 m) and is accessed from the tower through a high arch with chamfered orders.[1]
There is a 19th-century reredos, now in the tower, that depicts the Annunciation. There is 17th-century octagonal baptismal font. Stained glass in the church includes work by Henry Holiday, Ballantine & Gardner and A. Seward & Co.[4]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f Farrer & Brownbill (1911), pp. 337–344
- ^ Abram (1877), p. 545
- ^ a b c d e "Church of St Bartholomew", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1362006, retrieved 7 August 2011
- ^ a b c Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), p. 309
- ^ Price (1998), p. 82
- ^ "Listed Buildings", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/listed-buildings/, retrieved 7 August 2011
- ^ "Church Details: Great Harwood St Bartholomew", blackburn.anglican.org (Diocese of Blackburn), http://www.blackburn.anglican.org/parish.asp?theid=106103, retrieved 7 August 2011
- Bibliography
- Abram, William Alexander (1877), A History of Blackburn, Town and Parish, J.G. & J. Toulmin, OCLC 14163415
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911), "Townships — Great Harwood", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (Constable), OCLC 270761418, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53129
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300126670
- Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice: 1836-1942, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, ISBN 1862200548
External links
Media related to St Bartholomew's Church, Great Harwood at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:- Buildings and structures in Hyndburn
- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire
- Grade II* listed churches
- Paley and Austin buildings
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