Church in Lancashire, English
Christ Church, Bacup Christ Church, Bacup, from the southeast
Location in the Borough of Rossendale
53°42′24″N 2°11′37″W / 53.7068°N 2.1935°W /53.7068; -2.1935 OS grid reference SD 873,233 Location Beech Street,Bacup ,Lancashire Country English Denomination Anglican Website Christ Church, Bacup History Status Parish church Architecture Heritage designation Grade II Designated 30 November 1984 Architect(s) Sharpe and Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1854 Construction cost Over £3,000 Specifications Materials Sandstone rubble ,slate roofAdministration Province York Diocese Manchester Archdeaconry Bolton Deanery Rossendale Parish Christ Church, Bacup Clergy Vicar(s) Rev D. Woodall
Christ Church is in Beech Street, off Todmorden Road,Bacup ,Lancashire , England. It is a formerAnglican parish church in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton and thediocese of Manchester [ 1] National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade IIlisted building .[ 2]
The church was built in 1854, and paid for from the legacy of a local manufacturer, James Heyworth. It was designed by theLancaster firm of architectsSharpe and Paley . The church cost over £3,000 (equivalent to £360,000 in 2023),[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Christ Church is constructed insandstone rubble with aslate roof. Its architectural style isGothic Revival . The plan consists of a southwest tower, a four-bay nave with north and southaisles , a porch, and aclerestory , and a two-baychancel . The tower is in three stages and has diagonalbuttresses rising halfway up the tower. At its southeast corner is a polygonal stairturret rising to a greater height than the tower and surmounted by apinnacled lantern. It has a three-light west window in the lowest stage with smaller three-light windows in the middle stage on the west and south sides. The top stage contains two-light bell openings and at the top is a plainparapet . At the west end of the body of the church are triple two-light windows with a wheel window above them in thegable . At the east end is a triplelancet window .[ 2]
Thereredos is in stone withblind arcades ,crockets , and images of faces. Thepulpit is in a similar style.[ 2] [ 4] Shrigley and Hunt .[ 4]
Christ Church in Bacup Redevelopment Of Nave After 12 years of closure, the Church of England sold the building - for conversion into offices with a focus on digital businesses[ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
Planning permission was granted for this redevelopment in April 2023.[ 11]
^ Christ Church, Bacup Church of England , archived fromthe original on 29 September 2009, retrieved27 June 2010 ^a b c Historic England ,"Christ Church, Bacup (1072858)" ,National Heritage List for England , retrieved10 May 2011 ^ UKRetail Price Index inflation figures are based on data fromClark, Gregory (2017)."The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" .MeasuringWorth . Retrieved7 May 2024 . ^a b c Hartwell, Clare;Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969],Lancashire: North , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London:Yale University Press , p. 90,ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9 ^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012),The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin , Swindon:English Heritage , p. 216,ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8 ^ Cornall, Vanessa (30 March 2012),"End of an era as Bacup's last Church of England church closes" ,Lancashire Telegraph , retrieved1 June 2012 ^ "Tower details" .^ "Bacup Christ Church Combined Paper" (PDF) .Church of England .^ "Christ Church Part 2 - GrowTraffic Now Want To Bring The Church Back Into Use As Offices" . Peter Dunn, Facebook.^ "About GrowTraffic" . Growtraffic.^ "Grade II listed church to be transformed into business centre" .Lancashire Telegraph . 20 April 2023. Retrieved7 June 2023 .
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