St Andrew's Church, Burnley Explained

St Andrew's Church, Burnley
Fullname:Parish Church of St Andrew with St Margaret and St James, Burnley
Pushpin Map:United Kingdom Burnley
Pushpin Label Position:left
Map Caption:Location in Burnley
Location:Colne Road, Burnley, Lancashire
Country:England
Coordinates:53.8021°N -2.2352°W
Osgraw:SD 846 340
Website:St Andrew, Burnley
Status:Parish church
Functional Status:Active
Heritage Designation:Grade II
Designated Date:29 September 1977
Architect:J. Medland Taylor
Austin and Paley (restoration)
Architectural Type:Church
Style:Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking:1866
Materials:Sandstone, slate roof
Parish:Burnley St Andrew with
Burnley St Margaret and
Burnley St James
Deanery:Burnley
Archdeaconry:Blackburn
Diocese:Blackburn
Province:York
Vicar:The Revd Fr Aiden J A Edwards B A (Hons)
Reader:Cambell Barker
Warden:Nora Myles,
Anne Ravenhill
Parishadmin:Mrs K. Midgeley

St Andrew's Church is in Colne Road, Burnley, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Burnley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with those of St Margaret, Burnley, and St James, Burnley. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

History

The church was built in 1866–67 to a design by J. Medland Taylor. The district chapelry of Saint Andrew, Burnley was assigned in 1869. It was restored in 1898 by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley, and a baptistery was added during the 20th century.

Architecture

St Andrew's is constructed in sandstone with slate roofs, in Gothic Revival style. Its plan consists of a nave with a west baptistery, north and south aisles, a chancel with a polygonal apse, a north vestry, a south chapel, and a southwest steeple. The tower has three stages, with a west door, a clock-face, and two-light bell openings. On its summit is a broach spire with four lucarnes. At the west end of the nave is a four-light window and a quatrefoil. Along each side of the nave are two half-dormer windows. The north aisle is in four bays, each with a two-light window; the south aisle has three bays with two two-bay windows and one three-bay window. The windows in the vestry and the chapel all have two lights, and the apse has three three-light windows. Inside the church is an open timber roof. The reredos, and almost all the stained glass, is by Kempe.

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