Christ Church, Thornton

Christ Church, Thornton-Cleveleys
Christ Church, Thornton-Cleveleys
Christ Church, Thornton-Cleveleys
Location in the Borough of Wyre
Coordinates: 53°52′39″N 3°01′18″W / 53.8774°N 3.0218°W / 53.8774; -3.0218
Location Meadows Avenue, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website Christ Church, Thornton-Cleveleys
History
Consecrated 1836
Architecture
Status parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Joseph T. Parkinson
Austin, Paley and Austin
Leach, Rhodes and Walker
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival, Modern
Groundbreaking 1835
Completed 1963
Specifications
Materials Sandstone
Administration
Parish Christ Church, Thornton-Cleveleys
Deanery Poulton
Archdeaconry Lancaster archdeaconry
Diocese Diocese of Blackburn
Clergy
Vicar(s) Damian Platt
Assistant priest(s) Keith Sillis
Laity
Reader(s) Tom Pilkington, Phil Deegan
Churchwarden(s) Judith Murphy, David Grigg
Parish administrator Sally & Ellen

Christ Church is in Meadows Avenue, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Poulton, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.[1]

History

Christ Church has been the parish church of Thornton-Cleveleys since 1836.[2] The church was built originally in 1835–37 to a design by Joseph Parkinson.[3] The chancel was added in 1913–14 by the Lancaster architects Austin, Paley and Austin.[4] In 1963 Leach, Rhodes and Walker rebuilt the nave, added the tower and built parish rooms.[3]

Architecture

The authors of the Buildings of England series comment that the church and parish rooms have "a mismash of an exterior".[3] The church is constructed in yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings. The architectural style is Free Perpendicular. Standing to the southwest of the church are single-storey parish rooms, from which rises a tower with an open bell stage and a saddleback roof. Inside the church is stained glass installed in 1974 and designed by Brian Clark.[3]

Christ Church
Christ Church
Christ Church

See also

References

  1. Christ Church, Thornton-Cleveleys, retrieved 21 August 2012
  2. About us, Christ Church, Thornton, retrieved 21 August 2012
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 666, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  4. Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 249, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8

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