Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade

Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade, Manchester Road, Burnley

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244908
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade
Statutory Address:: Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade, Manchester Road, Burnley

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244908
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade
Statutory Address 1:: Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade, Manchester Road, Burnley

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade, Manchester Road, Burnley

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 83543 32041

Details

SD8332SE 906-1/19/95

BURNLEY MANCHESTER ROAD (East side) Tower and spire of former Methodist Church (demolished) & adjoining balustrade

27/09/72

GV II

Formerly known as: The former Methodist Church, including adjoining balustrade MANCHESTER ROAD.

Tower and spire of former Methodist Church, with adjoining balustrade. c1905. By Waddington, Son and Dunkerley (church demolished). Coursed squared sandstone to the first stage and sandstone ashlar above. Square plan. The tower, of two tall stages, has a moulded plinth, an impost band, an offset to the second stage which is clasped by diagonal shafts carried up as pinnacles, a parapet with geometrical enrichment, and a splay-footed spire with small flying buttresses from the pinnacles; a two-centred arched west doorway with deeply moulded surround and double doors with strap hinges, and a small two-light window above with louvres and corner shafts; and an elaborate belfry stage with a thin triangular shaft in the centre of each side flanked by two-centred arched belfry windows with moulded surrounds, ogival tracery and deeply-recessed louvred openings. The balustrade, protecting a raised terraced forecourt, is of geometrical pattern.

Listing NGR: SD8354332041

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Legacy System number:: 467131
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.