All Saints Church, Hesketh Bank

All Saints Church is in Station Road, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.^[1]

All Saints Church
All Saints Church, Hesketh Bank, from the southwest
All Saints Church Location in West Lancashire
53.7027°N 2.8400°W / 53.7027; -2.8400
Location	Station Road, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	All Saints
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Austin and Paley
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1923
Completed	1936
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Blackburn
Archdeaconry	Blackburn
Deanery	Leyland
Parish	Hesketh with Becconsall
Clergy
Priest(s)	Revd Nicholas Davis
Assistant priest(s)	Interregnum
Laity
Reader(s)	Lesley
Churchwarden(s)	Iain Ashcroft Mary Scambler

History

The church was designed by the Lancaster architect Henry Paley of Austin and Paley, and built between 1925 and 1926. Plans had been made in 1923 for a church with a spire, which would have cost about £6,500 (equivalent to £470,000 in 2023),^[2] but these were scaled back, and the planned spire was replaced by a tower with a saddleback roof.^[3] The new church replaced a smaller church built in 1765, and the site was given by Major T. Fermor-Hesketh.^[4] The tower was completed by the same architect in 1935 at a cost of £721.^[5]

Architecture

The authors of the Buildings of England series state that this a small church, but that its broad west tower is "impressive".^[6] The tower is supported by stepped angle buttresses, and it has a pyramidal roof recessed on two sides. The windows contain tracery based on the Decorated and Perpendicular styles.^[6]

See also

• Lancashire portal

• List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44)
• Becconsall Old Church

References

Citations

1. All Saints, Hesketh w Becconsall, Church of England, retrieved 17 April 2012
2. 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 7 May 2024.
3. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 181.
4. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 251.
5. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 254.
6. Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 105.

Sources

• 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

External links

• All Saints, Hesketh-with-Becconsall – church website