Description

SK 17 SE PARISH OF WARDLOW MAIN STREET
3/85 (East Side)
Church of Good Shepherd
and attached school
II

Church and attached school. 1872-3 by H Cockbain of Middleton. Coursed rock-faced
limestone with gritstone dressings. Welsh slate roofs with coped gables with
moulded kneelers, and twin gabled bellcote at junction of church and school.
T-plan, single storey. Church in a mixture of Gothic styles. Large 4-light Perp.
style west window with panel tracery. Small trefoiled lancet above. South
elevation has from left to right a buttress with two set-offs, doorway with four-
centred arch with moulded hood mould. Hollow moulding with fleurons. Oak door
with wooden handle and latch. Stone plaque above. Clasping buttress with small
trefoiled lancet set at an angle to the left of the buttress. Two-light window
with cusped lights and pointed quatrefoil above. Hood mould with stops. Buttress
with two set-offs, then a similar window, buttress and window. Polygonal
projection with small single lancet. Stepped clasping buttress. 3-light window
with trefoiled heads. North elevation has 2-light windows with Perp style tracery.
School to north has 3-light chamfered mullion windows with flat heads. Plain
interior with simple Tudor style wooden screen at the west end. Stone pulpit
corbelled out of the wall with the staircase built into the wall and accommodated
in a polygonal projection. Communion rail with cusped ogees. Blind arcade along
north wall.

Listing NGR: SK1814574746

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452832

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