St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble

St Andrew's Church,
Ashton-on-Ribble
St Andrew's Church,; Ashton-on-Ribble
	Steeple of St Andrew's
	St Andrew's Church,; Ashton-on-Ribble Location in Preston
	53°46′08″N2°44′10″W / 53.7689°N 2.7360°W Coordinates: 53°46′08″N2°44′10″W / 53.7689°N 2.7360°W
OS grid reference	SD 516 305
Location	Blackpool Road,; Ashton-on-Ribble,; Preston, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Churchmanship	Conservative Evangelical
Website	www.standrewsashton.org.uk
History
Status	Parish church
Dedication	Saint Andrew
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	27 September 1979
Architect(s)	Ewan Christian (expansion)
Architectural type	Church
Style	Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1835; construction start: 1836
Completed	1902
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone, slate roofs
Administration
Parish	St Andrew, Ashton-on-Ribble
Deanery	Preston
Archdeaconry	Lancaster
Diocese	Blackburn
Province	York
Clergy
Minister(s)	Revd James D. G. Nash Revd Jonny W. S. Lee
Laity
Reader(s)	Dr. Brian Hitchen
Churchwarden(s)	Mr Howard Robinson, ; Mr Dave Underhill
Parish administrator	Mrs Michelle Bateman

Last updated May 07, 2022

St Andrew's Church is in Blackpool Road, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.^[1]

History

The foundation stone of the church was laid on 20 August 1835, and the church was built in the 1836 consecrated on 7 October 1836 by the Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, bishop of Chester. At this time the church seated about 300 people.^[2] In 1873–74 the architect Ewan Christian added a north aisle and converted the nave windows into Early English style. A vestry was added in 1902.^[3]

Present day

St Andrew's Church is within the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England.

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in sandstone with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a wide north aisle, a north porch, a chancel with an organ chamber to the north, a vestry to the east, and a small west tower. The tower is in Romanesque style, and the rest of the church is in Early English style. The tower is in three stages, with buttresses, and a short broach spire. In the bottom stage are two round-headed lancet windows, with a similar but larger window in the middle stage. The bell openings are louvred, and consist of triple round-headed lancets. Along the sides of the nave and the aisle are three two-light windows, and a three-light window in the eastern bay.^[1]

Interior

Inside the church, the arcade is carried on cylindrical piers of polished pink granite. In the chancel is a sedilia. On the wall of the church are monuments to members of the Pedder family.^[1] The stained glass in the east window is by Hardman.^[3] The three-manual organ was built in 1902 by Henry Willis & Sons. It was overhauled in 1969 by J. W. Walker, and again in 2001 by Wood of Huddersfield.^[4]

External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of a Royal Air Force officer of World War I, and an Army Dental Corps officer and Royal Army Medical Corps sergeant of World War II.^[5]

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References

1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of St Andrew, Preston (1207244)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 26 June 2018
↑ History of St Andrew's, St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble, retrieved 26 June 2018
1 2 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 549, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
↑ Lancashire, Preston--Ashton on Ribble, St. Andrew, Blackpool Road (N01834), British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 26 June 2018
↑ Ashton-on-Ribble (St Andrew) Churchyard, Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 12 February 2013

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[nhl-1] 1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of St Andrew, Preston (1207244)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 26 June 2018

[2] History of St Andrew's, St Andrew's Church, Ashton-on-Ribble, retrieved 26 June 2018

[pev-3] 1 2 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 549, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9

[4] Lancashire, Preston--Ashton on Ribble, St. Andrew, Blackpool Road (N01834), British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 26 June 2018

[5] Ashton-on-Ribble (St Andrew) Churchyard, Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 12 February 2013

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