St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble
St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble | |
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![]() Steeple of St Andrew's | |
53°46′08″N 2°44′10″W / 53.7689°N 2.7360°W | |
OS grid reference | SD 516 305 |
Location | Blackpool Road, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Anglican |
Churchmanship | Conservative Evangelical |
Website | www.standrewsashton.org.uk |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Dedication | Saint Andrew |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade II |
Designated | 27 September 1979 |
Architect(s) | Ewan Christian (expansion) |
Architectural type | Church |
Style | Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival |
Groundbreaking | 1835 construction start: 1836 |
Completed | 1902 |
Specifications | |
Materials | Sandstone, slate roofs |
Administration | |
Province | York |
Diocese | Blackburn |
Archdeaconry | Lancaster |
Deanery | Preston |
Parish | St Andrew, Ashton-on-Ribble |
Clergy | |
Minister(s) | Revd James D. G. Nash Revd Jonny W. S. Lee |
Laity | |
Reader(s) | Dr. Brian Hitchen |
Churchwarden(s) | Mr Howard Robinson, Mr Dave Underhill |
Parish administrator | Mrs Michelle Bateman |
St Andrew's Church is in Blackpool Road, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1]
History
[edit]The foundation stone of the church was laid on 20 August 1835, and the church was built in the 1836 consecrated on 7 October 1836 by the Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, bishop of Chester. At this time the church seated about 300 people.[2] In 1873–74 the architect Ewan Christian added a north aisle and converted the nave windows into Early English style. A vestry was added in 1902.[3]
Present day
[edit]St Andrew's Church is within the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England.
Architecture
[edit]Exterior
[edit]The church is constructed in sandstone with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a wide north aisle, a north porch, a chancel with an organ chamber to the north, a vestry to the east, and a small west tower. The tower is in Romanesque style, and the rest of the church is in Early English style. The tower is in three stages, with buttresses, and a short broach spire. In the bottom stage are two round-headed lancet windows, with a similar but larger window in the middle stage. The bell openings are louvred, and consist of triple round-headed lancets. Along the sides of the nave and the aisle are three two-light windows, and a three-light window in the eastern bay.[1]
Interior
[edit]Inside the church, the arcade is carried on cylindrical piers of polished pink granite. In the chancel is a sedilia. On the wall of the church are monuments to members of the Pedder family.[1] The stained glass in the east window is by Hardman.[3] The three-manual organ was built in 1902 by Henry Willis & Sons. It was overhauled in 1969 by J. W. Walker, and again in 2001 by Wood of Huddersfield.[4]
External features
[edit]The churchyard contains the war graves of a Royal Air Force officer of World War I, and an Army Dental Corps officer and Royal Army Medical Corps sergeant of World War II.[5]
Further reading
[edit]- Douglas B Cochrane, A History of the Parish of St Andrew's Ashton-on-Ribble, ASAA
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Historic England, "Church of St Andrew, Preston (1207244)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 26 June 2018
- ^ History of St Andrew's, St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble, retrieved 26 June 2018
- ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 549, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ Lancashire, Preston--Ashton on Ribble, St. Andrew, Blackpool Road (N01834), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 26 June 2018
- ^ Ashton-on-Ribble (St Andrew) Churchyard, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 12 February 2013
- Church of England church buildings in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches in Lancashire
- Romanesque Revival church buildings in England
- Gothic Revival church buildings in England
- Gothic Revival architecture in Lancashire
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Churches in Preston
- Conservative evangelical Anglican churches in England