All Saints Church, Hesketh Bank
All Saints Church is in Station Road, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.[1]
| All Saints Church | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church, Hesketh Bank, from the southwest | |
  All Saints Church Location in West Lancashire | |
| 53.7027°N 2.8400°W | |
| Location | Station Road, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | All Saints |
| History | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) | Austin and Paley |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1923 |
| Completed | 1936 |
| Administration | |
| Province | York |
| Diocese | Blackburn |
| Archdeaconry | Blackburn |
| Deanery | Leyland |
| Parish | Hesketh with Becconsall |
| Clergy | |
| Priest(s) | Revd Nicholas Davis |
| Assistant priest(s) | Interregnum |
| Laity | |
| Reader(s) | Lesley |
| Churchwarden(s) | Iain Ashcroft Mary Scambler |
History
The church was designed by the Lancaster architect Henry Paley of Austin and Paley, and built between 1925 and 1926. Plans had been made in 1923 for a church with a spire, which would have cost about £6,500 (equivalent to £390,000 in 2021),[2] but these were scaled back, and the planned spire was replaced by a tower with a saddleback roof.[3] The new church replaced a smaller church built in 1765, and the site was given by Major T. Fermor-Hesketh.[4] The tower was completed by the same architect in 1935 at a cost of £721.[5]
Architecture
The authors of the Buildings of England series state that this a small church, but that its broad west tower is "impressive".[6] The tower is supported by stepped angle buttresses, and it has a pyramidal roof recessed on two sides. The windows contain tracery based on the Decorated and Perpendicular styles.[6]
References
Citations
- All Saints, Hesketh w Becconsall, Church of England, retrieved 17 April 2012
- UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 181.
- Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 251.
- Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 254.
- Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 105.
Sources
- Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
External links
- All Saints, Hesketh-with-Becconsall – church website