St Saviour's Church, Aughton

St Saviour's Church, Aughton

St Saviour's Church, Aughton, from the east
St Saviour's Church, Aughton
Location in the City of Lancaster district
Coordinates: 54°06′09″N 2°41′21″W / 54.1025°N 2.6892°W / 54.1025; -2.6892
Location Aughton, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Saviour, Aughton
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) E. G. Paley
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Completed 1864
Administration
Parish Halton
Deanery Tunstall
Archdeaconry Lancaster
Diocese Blackburn
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd Pauline Bicknell
Laity
Reader(s) Martin Wakelin, Helen Leathard
Churchwarden(s) Frank Morphet, Mitzi Hayhurst
Parish administrator Gillian Morphet

St Saviour's Church is an Anglican parish church to the north of the hamlet of Aughton, Lancashire, England.

Ecclesiastical organisation

The church is within the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with those of St Wilfrid, Halton and St Luke, Slyne-with-Hest.[1]

History

The church was built in 1864 and designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. It cost £590 (equivalent of £50,000 in 2015),[2] and provided seating for 100 people.[3] In 1913–14 the successors in the Lancaster practice, Austin and Paley added a parclose screen.[4]

Architecture

It is a small church with lancet windows, including a triple lancet at the east end. It has a bellcote at the west end, and a south porch.[5]

See also

References

  1. St Saviour, Aughton, Church of England, retrieved 26 August 2011
  2. UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  3. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 220.
  4. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 248.
  5. Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 88.

Bibliography

  • Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8 
  • Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9 
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