Blackburn Cathedral
Cathedral Church of St Mary The Virgin
Grade II* Listed
List Entry Number: 1239147
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/10/2012
SD 6827 NW 2/1 28.11.51
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
(Formerly listed as The Cathedral Church of St Mary)
GV II*
Cathedral church (since 1926), formerly parish church. 1820-6 by John Palmer of Manchester; damaged by fire in 1831 and restored by Thomas Stones, clerk of works, in consultation with Thomas Rickman. Large-scale E extensions of 1926 by W A Forsythe; central (transeptal) corona by Lawrence King, 1961. C19 work in ashlar; C20 in snecked rubble; slate roofs. W tower flanked by rooms that contained the stairs to the galleries (now removed), nave and aisles. Shallow chancel removed and replaced by large transepts, choir and side chapels, all set over offices. C19 work in Decorated revival style. W tower, archaeologically careful and advanced for its date: 3 stages, the lower stage with ogee-headed superordinate arch containing W doorway under flat gabled portal, and 2-light window; 1st stage divided with paired windows under clocks; paired belfry openings under ogee hood moulds; angle buttresses gabled and finialed clasp polygonal pinnacles; pierced parapet. Aisles and nave battlemented, the former with tall 3- light windows with a heavy transom (to conceal galleries), buttresses between; the latter with paired windows. 1926 work (incomplete) in spare Decorated style; corona with 7-light square-headed windows to each of the eight facets, the window bays divided by mullions that rise above parapet level; taller angle pinnacles; all this in an economical Modern style, the whole surmounted by a tall spire. Interior: nave of 6 bays (the E bays altered when church extended). Cylindrical piers with attached shafts to cardinal points; deeply moulded arches with continuous hood-moulds; continuous formal foliage frieze below clere story windows; ribbed tierceron star vault with longitudinal rib. Aisles have flat ribbed ceiling with springers. Tripartite W arrangement of doorway flanked by ogee-headed recesses. Fittings: very few. 4 C14 seats with misericords. Some C19 glass includes (NE) Morris & Co; glass to N transept 5-light window formerly in E window of original church, mid-C19 Flemish. Palmer's design is an interesting early example of archaeologically-careful pre-Puginian Gothic Revival work, and the starred status of this building reflects the importance of this.
Listing NGR: SD6836027988
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1239147
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Blackburn Cathedral is one of England's newest Cathedrals, yet it is one of the country's oldest places of Christian worship. For many centuries, this has been the Parish Church of Blackburn dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.
It continues as a place of prayer and worship and is at the centre of the Diocese which takes in almost the whole of Lancashire.
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Originally a parish church by John Palmer, it became a cathedral in 1926. The church was damaged by fire in 1831 and repaired, it was extended at the east end from 1938, and in the 1960s a corona was added over the crossing. The cathedral is built in stone with a slate roof. It consists of a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, aisles, transepts, and a choir with side chapels. The original part of the cathedral is in Decorated style, and the later parts are in a simpler Gothic style. The corona is octagonal in Modernist style, surrounded by tall windows, and with pinnacles and a tall spire.
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Blackburn Cathedral
Cathedral Church of St Mary The Virgin
Grade II* Listed
List Entry Number: 1239147
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/10/2012
SD 6827 NW 2/1 28.11.51
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
(Formerly listed as The Cathedral Church of St Mary)
GV II*
Cathedral church (since 1926), formerly parish church. 1820-6 by John Palmer of Manchester; damaged by fire in 1831 and restored by Thomas Stones, clerk of works, in consultation with Thomas Rickman. Large-scale E extensions of 1926 by W A Forsythe; central (transeptal) corona by Lawrence King, 1961. C19 work in ashlar; C20 in snecked rubble; slate roofs. W tower flanked by rooms that contained the stairs to the galleries (now removed), nave and aisles. Shallow chancel removed and replaced by large transepts, choir and side chapels, all set over offices. C19 work in Decorated revival style. W tower, archaeologically careful and advanced for its date: 3 stages, the lower stage with ogee-headed superordinate arch containing W doorway under flat gabled portal, and 2-light window; 1st stage divided with paired windows under clocks; paired belfry openings under ogee hood moulds; angle buttresses gabled and finialed clasp polygonal pinnacles; pierced parapet. Aisles and nave battlemented, the former with tall 3- light windows with a heavy transom (to conceal galleries), buttresses between; the latter with paired windows. 1926 work (incomplete) in spare Decorated style; corona with 7-light square-headed windows to each of the eight facets, the window bays divided by mullions that rise above parapet level; taller angle pinnacles; all this in an economical Modern style, the whole surmounted by a tall spire. Interior: nave of 6 bays (the E bays altered when church extended). Cylindrical piers with attached shafts to cardinal points; deeply moulded arches with continuous hood-moulds; continuous formal foliage frieze below clere story windows; ribbed tierceron star vault with longitudinal rib. Aisles have flat ribbed ceiling with springers. Tripartite W arrangement of doorway flanked by ogee-headed recesses. Fittings: very few. 4 C14 seats with misericords. Some C19 glass includes (NE) Morris & Co; glass to N transept 5-light window formerly in E window of original church, mid-C19 Flemish. Palmer's design is an interesting early example of archaeologically-careful pre-Puginian Gothic Revival work, and the starred status of this building reflects the importance of this.
Listing NGR: SD6836027988
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1239147
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Blackburn Cathedral is one of England's newest Cathedrals, yet it is one of the country's oldest places of Christian worship. For many centuries, this has been the Parish Church of Blackburn dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.
It continues as a place of prayer and worship and is at the centre of the Diocese which takes in almost the whole of Lancashire.
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Originally a parish church by John Palmer, it became a cathedral in 1926. The church was damaged by fire in 1831 and repaired, it was extended at the east end from 1938, and in the 1960s a corona was added over the crossing. The cathedral is built in stone with a slate roof. It consists of a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, aisles, transepts, and a choir with side chapels. The original part of the cathedral is in Decorated style, and the later parts are in a simpler Gothic style. The corona is octagonal in Modernist style, surrounded by tall windows, and with pinnacles and a tall spire.
www.blackburncathedral.com/index.asp
www.blackburncathedral.com/userfiles/file/Cathedral%20Sho...