A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



by zo ft. with north vestry, nave 70 ft. 6 in. by 

 20 ft. 6 in., north aisle 74 ft. 6 in. by 12 ft. 6 in., 

 south aisle 66 ft. by 13 ft., south porch and west 

 tower 10 ft. 8 in. square, all these measurements 

 being internal. The building is constructed through- 

 out of rubble masonry with gritstone dressings, and 

 no part, with the possible exception of one of the 

 windows of the north aisle, is older than the 1 5th 

 century. To this period belong the north arcade 

 and aisle, tower, and perhaps the chancel ; but this is 

 said" 6 to have been rebuilt in 1553. However this 

 may be, the whole of the building is of late date, and 

 though the architectural detail is uninteresting, the 

 general appearance of the interior is good. The 

 south arcade and aisle appear to have been rebuilt at 

 a subsequent period, perhaps at the end of the 1 6th 

 or in the early years of the I yth century, the windows 

 being all square-headed with plain, rounded lights, and 

 without labels. The chancel roof is externally lower 

 than that of the nave, which is continued over the aisles 



windows renewed, new wood dormers inserted, the 

 floor lowered 12 in., the rough-cast which had 

 formerly covered the exterior removed, and the two 

 end galleries taken down. The whole of the seating 

 was likewise renewed, the old square pews, which had 

 filled both aisles, nave, and part of the chancel, being 

 done away with. There was a further restoration of 

 the roof in 1895, when it was again restated, the east 

 gable and wall north of it rebuilt in dressed stone, 

 and the vestry enlarged. 



The chancel has an original five-light pointed east 

 window with plain pointed lights and transom at 

 the line of springing and inner moulded arch dying 

 into the wall at the same level ; two windows and a 

 priest's door on the south side, and a single square- 

 headed window of two cinquefoiled lights on the 

 north side to the west of the vestry door. The 

 easternmost window on the south has a segmental 

 head and is of three lights, the middle with cinque- 

 foiled and the outer ones with trefoiled heads, with 



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PLAN OF GOOSNARGH CHURCH 



with overhanging eaves, and has two modern gabled dor- 

 mer windows on the south side and three on the north. 

 The roof probably dates from the time of the 

 building of the south aisle, when it was raised some 

 feet, the line of the former 1 5th-century roof showing 

 in the east face of the tower within the nave. In the 

 1 8th century the church is described as filled with 

 square pews probably of 17th-century date, and had 

 a gallery at the west end, and in 1 800 another gallery 

 was erected at the east end in front of the chancel for 

 the use of the inmates of Goosnargh Hospital. 1 " 

 Repairs had been carried out in 1 78 8, 178 when probably 

 a ceiling was erected; but the building remained more 

 or less unrestored till 1868-9, when it was very 

 substantially repaired, the roof opened out, renovated, 

 and wholly reslated, the stone-work of many of the 



chamfered jambs, head and mullions, but without hood 

 mould. The other window is of the same type as 

 those in the south aisle, square-headed and of two 

 rounded lights. The priest's door is 2 ft. 4 in. wide 

 with segmental arch and chamfered jambs and head. 

 The walls of the chancel, as in the rest of the church, 

 are plastered, and the roof is a modern boarded one 

 of flat pitch in three bays with moulded principals 

 and purlins, and divided from the open timber roof 

 of the nave by a timbered plaster gable facing west 

 with shaped moulded piece below the tie-beam 

 carried down the walls on to small wood pillars on 

 stone brackets in the form of a chancel arch. There 

 is a good 1 8th-century brass chandelier, but the rest 

 of the fittings of the chancel are all modern, and 

 there is no screen. 



176 Glynne, Churches of Land. (Chet. 

 Soc.), 41. 



177 When this gallery was erected win- 

 dows were cut through the upper part of painted : ' The 



the chancel wall both north and south. 

 They have since been built up. 



1?b On one of the roof timbers was 

 Rev<i- C. Hull, B.D. ; 



202 



R. Oliverson, Wm. Gornall, Wm. Bailey, 

 J. Eccles, churchwardens, A.D. 1788. 

 The expense of repairing this church, 

 195 izi. 6d.' Fishwick, op. cit. Zl. 



