All Saints Church, Higher Walton

All Saints Church, Higher Walton
All Saints Church, Higher Walton
All Saints Church, Higher Walton Location in the Borough of South Ribble
53°44′27″N2°38′27″W / 53.7408°N 2.6407°W / 53.7408; -2.6407
OS grid reference	SD 578,274
Location	Higher Walton, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	27 February 1984
Architect(s)	E. G. Paley Paley and Austin
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1861
Completed	1871
Specifications
Materials	Rock-faced stone, slate roofs
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Blackburn
Archdeaconry	Blackburn
Deanery	Leyland
Parish	All Saints, Higher Walton
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev'd Hannah Boyd
Assistant priest(s)	Rev'd David Woodhouse

All Saints Church is in Blackburn Road in the village of Higher Walton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn. ^[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. ^[2]

History

The ecclesiastical parish of All Saints, Higher Walton, was formed in 1865 out of the parish of St Leonard, Walton-le-Dale. The church, standing on an eminence overlooking the village, was erected in 1861–2 from the designs of the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley at a cost of £6,000 (equivalent to £630,000in 2021). ^{[3] [4]} It provided seating for 604 people. ^[5] The site was given by Miles Rodgett, and several stained glass windows in the church are erected to the memory of members of the Rodgett family. ^[6] Paley donated a stained glass window depicting the healing of the sick man. ^[5] The steeple was added in 1871 by the partnership of Paley and Austin. ^[3]

Architecture

Exterior

All Saints is constructed in rock-faced stone, and it has slated steeply-pitched roofs. The architectural style is Early English. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel in one range, a south aisle with a porch, a north transept and sacristy. The chancel ends in a three-sided apse. At the west end is a tower with diagonal buttresses, a north stair turret, and a broach spire. On the west side of the tower is a three-light window, and in the upper part is a two-light bell opening on each side. The spire has a clock face under a gablet on each cardinal side. ^[2] At the east end of the aisle is a wheel window. ^[3] The other windows have two lights. ^[2]

Interior

Inside the church is an arcade of three short piers with capitals carved with different foliage designs. On the chancel walls are painted geometrical patterns, and on the ceiling are painted panels. ^[2] The stained glass in the north transept dates from 1877 and is by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. Elsewhere there is 20th-century stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt. ^[3] The two-manual organ was built in 1873 by W. E. Richardson of Preston, and overhauled by the same firm in 1909. It was restored by Peter Collins in 2003–04. ^[7] There is a ring of eight bells, all cast by John Taylor & Co between 1871 and 1928. ^[8]

External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of three soldiers of World War I, and an airman of World War II. ^[9]

See also

• Lancashire portal

• Listed buildings in Walton-le-Dale
• List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
• List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

References

1. All Saints, Higher Walton, Church of England , retrieved 2 June 2011
2. Historic England. "Church of All Saints, South Ribble (1290187)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 June 2012.
3. Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 680, ISBN   978-0-300-12667-9
4. 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.
5. Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 219, ISBN   978-1-84802-049-8
6. William Farrer; J Brownbill (eds.). A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911): Townships: Walton-le-Dale. pp. 289–300. Retrieved 6 March 2014.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
7. Lancashire, Walton, Higher, All Saints (R00889), British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 2 June 2011
8. Higher Walton, All Saints, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers , retrieved 2 June 2011
9. HIGHER WALTON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 15 February 2013