Church in Lancashire, England
Sacred Heart Church is aRoman Catholic church inBlackpool ,Lancashire , England, on Talbot Road close to the town centre. It was the first Roman Catholic church built in Blackpool and has been designated a Grade II*listed building byEnglish Heritage .
Sacred Heart Church was founded by theJesuits as the town's first Roman Catholic church.[ 1] [ 2] Edward Welby Pugin .[ 3] Pugin & Pugin .[ 2] listed building byEnglish Heritage on 20 October 1983.[ 4] [ 3] [ 5] Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster . The parish priest is Canon Robert Dewhurst.[ 6]
The church is constructed of stone, with slate roofs, in theEnglish Gothic style .[ 3] bay nave with an octagonalcrossing , around which theaisles andtransepts lie.[ 2] [ 3] lantern with sidetracery . The lantern itself has a pyramidal roof of copper.[ 2] [ 3] buttresses and cornerpinnacles , and buttressedaisles withclerestories .[ 2] [ 3] [ 2] William Wailes .[ 2]
The navearcades are supported by clustered marblepiers with foliated tops and mouldedlancet arches .[ 2] [ 3] [ 2] chancel is flanked by twolady chapels . The church fittings include a white marble octagonalpulpit that is carved and sits on red and black columns.[ 3]
There is a Neo-Georgian presbytery to the east of the building that was built c. 1950, and a former school to the west that dates from 1898.[ 2] [ 7]
^a b Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1912),"Townships: Layton with Warbreck" ,A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7 , pp. 247– 251, retrieved14 April 2011 ^a b c d e f g h i j Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) , pp. 137–38^a b c d e f g h Historic England ,"Church of the Sacred Heart (1072015)" ,National Heritage List for England , retrieved29 April 2011 ^ Pevsner (1969) , p. 69^ Listed Buildings English Heritage , 2010, retrieved22 August 2011 ^ "Candlelit Carols in Resort's Hidden Gem" ,Blackpool Gazette , retrieved14 April 2011 ^ "Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, Blackpool — Roman Catholic" ,GENUKI , retrieved14 April 2011
Grade I Grade II*
Grade II
Unlisted
Demolished Lists
Grade I
St Michael, Aughton St Mary, Barnoldswick St Peter and St Paul, Bolton-by-Bowland St Michael, Bracewell St Helen, Churchtown St Bartholomew, Colne All Hallows, Great Mitton St John, Gressingham St Cuthbert, Halsall St Patrick, Heysham St Peter, Heysham St Margaret, Hornby Lancaster Priory Old St Leonard, Langho St Wilfrid, Melling Pleasington Priory St Walburge, Preston St Wilfrid, Ribchester St Michael, St Michael's on Wyre St Leonard, Samlesbury St Andrew, Slaidburn St Peter, Stonyhurst St Saviour, Stydd St John, Tunstall St Thomas, Upholland St Mary and All Saints, Whalley
Grade II*
St Michael and All Angels, Altcar St James, Altham St John, Arkholme St Michael and All Angels, Ashton-on-Ribble Blackburn Cathedral St Mark, Blackburn St Silas, Blackburn Sacred Heart, Blackpool Holy Trinity, Bolton-le-Sands St Paul, Brookhouse St John the Baptist, Broughton St Peter, Burnley St John the Baptist, Burscough St Bartholomew, Chipping St George, Chorley St James, Church St Laurence, Chorley St Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe St John the Evangelist, Crawshawbooth St Peter, Darwen St Leonard, Downham Euxton Parish Church St Mary, Goosnargh St Bartholomew, Great Harwood St Michael, Kirkham Lancaster Cathedral St John, Lancaster St Andrew, Leyland St Cuthbert, Lytham St John, Lytham St Helen, Overton St Nicholas, Newchurch St Mary, Newchurch in Pendle St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk St Cuthbert, Over Kellet St Mary, Penwortham St John, Pilling St Chad, Poulton-le-Fylde St George, Preston St John, Preston St Mark, Preston St Peter, Preston St Wilfrid, Preston Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Preston (former St Ignatius)St John, Silverdale St Mary, Tarleton St James, Tatham St Helen, Waddington St Leonard, Walton-le-Dale St Michael, Whittington St Anne, Woodplumpton
Grade II
St Andrew, Accrington St James, Accrington Christ Church, Adlington St Paul, Adlington St Andrew, Ashton-on-Ribble St Leonard, Balderstone All Saints, Barnacre St Lawrence, Barton Holy Trinity, Blackburn Holy Trinity, Blackpool St John, Blackpool St Mary and St Michael, Bonds St Mary, Borwick St John, Bretherton St James, Briercliffe St James, Brindle All Saints with St John Baptist, Burnley St Andrew, Burnley St Mary, Burnley St Stephen, Burnley Capernwray Chapel Christ Church, Bacup Christ Church, Chatburn St Chad, Claughton St Andrew, Cleveleys St Paul, Constable Lee St Saviour, Cuerden St Cuthbert, Darwen St Mark, Dolphinholme St John, Ellel St Paul, Farington Immanuel, Feniscowles St Mary, Fleetwood St Peter, Fleetwood St Thomas, Garstang Christ Church, Glasson St Michael, Grimsargh St Ambrose's Church, Grindleton St Wilfrid, Halton-on-Lune St James, Haslingden All Saints, Higher Walton Holy Trinity, Hoghton St John the Divine, Holme Chapel Christ Church, Lancaster St Thomas, Lancaster St Peter, Leck St Paul, Longridge St Peter, Mawdesley St Mary's Church, Mellor Holy Trinity, Morecambe St John the Divine, Morecambe St Laurence, Morecambe St Paul, Nelson Immanuel, Oswaldtwistle St Leonard, Padiham Nazareth Unitarian, Padiham St John, Poulton-le-Fylde St Oswald, Preesall Carey Baptist Church, Preston City Church, Preston Emmanuel, Preston Fishergate Baptist Church, Preston Moor Park Methodist Church , PrestonPreston Central Methodist Church All Saints, Preston St Joseph, Preston St Luke, Preston St Mary, Preston St Paul, Preston St Thomas, Preston St Thomas of Canterbury and the English Martyrs Church, Preston St Peter, Quernmore St John, Rawtenstall St Anne, St Anne's-on-the-Sea St Thomas, St Anne's-on-the-Sea St Peter, Scorton St Paul, Scotforth St Anne, Singleton St Paul, Skelmersdale St Luke, Slyne with Hest Church of the Good Shepherd, Tatham St Oswald, Warton St Michael, Weeton Christ Church, Wesham St Michael, Whitewell St Luke, Winmarleigh St John the Evangelist, Worsthorne St Nicholas, Wrea Green St James, Wrightington Bar St John the Evangelist, Yealand Conyers St Mary, Yealand Conyers
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster
Churches Lancaster Cathedral - Cathedral Church of St PeterSt Mary of Furness Church, Barrow-in-Furness Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool Church of St Mary and St Michael, Bonds Our Lady and St Joseph's Church, Carlisle St Mary's Church, Fernyhalgh St Mary's Church, Fleetwood Church of Holy Trinity and St George, Kendal St John the Evangelist's Church, Kirkham St Mary's Church, Morecambe Church of St John the Evangelist, Poulton-le-Fylde Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and the English Martyrs, Preston Church of St Walburge, Preston St Joseph's Church, Preston St Wilfrid's Church, Preston Our Lady and St Wilfrid's Church, Warwick Bridge St Begh's Church, Whitehaven Our Lady and St Michael's Church, Workington St Mary's Church, Yealand Conyers
Schools Institutes Churches Parishes Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street St Ignatius Church, Stamford Hill St Anselm's Church, Southall St Dominic's Church, Newcastle St Wilfrid's Church, Preston St Aloysius Church, Glasgow Sacred Heart Church, Edinburgh St Peter's Church, Stonyhurst Chaplaincies Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy Former Sacred Heart Church, Accrington Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool Corpus Christi Church, Boscombe Sacred Heart Church, Bournemouth St Mary on the Quay, Bristol Corpus Christi Church, Brixton St Edmund's Church, Bury St Edmunds Annunciation Church, Chesterfield Holy Trinity Church, Chipping Norton St Mary Church, Clayton-le-Moors St Michael and St John Church, Clitheroe St David's Church, Dalkeith St Mary's Church, Great Yarmouth St Francis Xavier Church, Hereford St Winefride's Church, Holywell Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Leeds Sacred Heart Church, Leeds St Joseph's Church, Leigh Our Lady of Ransom and the Holy Souls Church, Llandrindod Wells Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Lowestoft St Aloysius Gonzaga Church, Oxford Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot St Ignatius Church, Preston St Walburge's Church, Preston St Joseph and St Francis Xavier Church, Richmond Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Rhyl St Joseph Church, Roehampton Holy Cross Church, St Helens Church of St Mary, Lowe House, St Helens St Stephen's Church, Skipton St Ignatius Church, South Ossett Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkhill St Austin's Church, Wakefield St John's Church, Wigan Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon Christ the King Church, Wimbledon Park St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon St George's Church, Worcester Spirituality See also
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