A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



by 20 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 176 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 1 7th 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 reslated. the cast 

 gable and wall north of it rebuilt in dressed stone, 

 and the vestry enlarged. 



The chancel has an original five-light pointed tut 

 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 



Nacre Aisle 





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Scale of keet 

 Plan of Goosnargh Church 



□ Modern 



with overhanging eaves,andhas two modern gableddor- 

 mer window! 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 5 th-century roof showing 

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



8th century the church is described as filled with 

 square pews probably of 17th-century date and had 

 Slery at the west end, and in 1 800 another gaUery 

 w? ereLd at the east end in front of the chancel fo 



he u£ of the inmates of Goosnargh Hosptul. 



RcptL had been carried out in . ;83 .>" when probably 



P iW was erected; but the building remained more 

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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 1 ft. 4 ">• 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 pnneip.li 

 and purlins, and divided from the open timber too 

 of the nave by a timbered plaster ***%£ 

 with shaped moulded p.ece below the tie-beam 

 carried d'wn the walls on to small wood pilar on 

 stone brackets in the form of a chancel arch Thcr 



s a good 18th-century brass chandelier, but the rat 

 of the fittings of the chancel are all modern, and 



there is no screen. 



R. Olivcr.on, Wm. Cmail, Wm. B.ilejr, 

 1. Eccles churchwardens at, 17»«- 

 J The « P en.e of repairinr lh, ch «h, 

 £195 iu.W.' Fiih^.ck, op- ««■ *'• 



the ch.ncel w»U both north »nd south. 

 TIkv h.ve since been built up. 



liO. one of the roof «•«*«»£» 

 painted: 'The R.W- C H«U, B.D. | 



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