St Hilda's Church, Bilsborrow

St Hilda's Church, Bilsborrow

St Hilda's Church, Bilsborrow, from the southwest
St Hilda's Church, Bilsborrow
Location in the Borough of Wyre
Coordinates: 53°51′08″N 2°44′32″W / 53.8522°N 2.7421°W / 53.8522; -2.7421
Location Bilsborrow Lane, Bilsborrow, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Hilda, Bilsborrow
History
Dedication Saint Hilda
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Henry Paley
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1926
Completed 1927
Specifications
Materials Stone, slate roof
Administration
Parish Bilsborrow
Deanery Garstang
Archdeaconry Lancaster
Diocese Blackburn
Province York
Clergy
Rector Revd Jeff Finch
Vicar(s) Revd Steve Cooper
Curate(s) Revd Margaret Sherdley
Laity
Reader(s) Delphine Burn
Churchwarden(s) Jane Wright
Delphine Burn

St Hilda's Church is in Bilsborrow Lane in the village of Bilsborrow, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Garstang, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with those of St Mary the Virgin, Goosnargh, St Lawrence, Barton, St Eadmer, Bleasdale, and St James, Whitechapel, to form the Fellside Team Ministry.[1]

History

St Hilda's was built in 1926–27, and designed by Henry Paley of the Lancaster firm of architects Austin and Paley at a cost of £11,640 (equivalent to £630,000 in 2015).[2][3] The foundation stone was laid by the Rt Revd William Temple, then the Bishop of Manchester (later the Archbishop of Canterbury).[4]

Architecture

The church is constructed in stone with a slate roof. The architectural style is Free Perpendicular. It has a low tower at the crossing, with a stair turret at its southeast corner, and texts inscribed above the bell openings. Inside the church, the pulpit is decorated with carvings of vines. The stained glass includes two windows by Shrigley and Hunt dating from the 1960s or 1970s.[5] The two-manual pipe organ was built in 1938 by Wilkinson of Kendal.[6] There is a ring of eight bells, all cast in 1949 by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.[7]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ St Hilda, Bilsborrow, Church of England, retrieved 3 May 2012
  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, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, pp. 182–183, 251, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  4. ↑ The Parish Church of Saint Hilda, Bilsborrow, Fellside Team Ministry, retrieved 3 May 2012
  5. ↑ Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 109, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  6. ↑ Lancashire, Bilsborrow, St. Hilda, Garstang Rd (S00035), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 3 May 2012
  7. ↑ Bilsborrow, S Hilda, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, retrieved 3 May 2012
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