All Saints Church is in Station Road,

Hesketh Bank Hesketh Bank is a village in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. It is situated approximately north-east of Southport and south-west of Preston. The village is within the civil parish of Hesketh-with-Becconsall, which includ ...

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, England. It is an active

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in the deanery of Leyland, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the

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History

The church was designed by the

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architect

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, 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 (), but these were scaled back, and the planned spire was replaced by a tower with a

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. The new church replaced a smaller church built in 1765, and the site was given by Major T. Fermor-Hesketh. The tower was completed by the same architect in 1935 at a cost of £721.

Architecture

The authors of the ''

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'' series state that this a small church, but that its broad west tower is "impressive". The tower is supported by stepped angle

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es, and it has a pyramidal roof recessed on two sides. The windows contain

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based on the Decorated and

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styles.

References

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External links

All Saints, Hesketh-with-Becconsall
– church website {{DEFAULTSORT:Hesketh Bank, All Saints Church Church of England church buildings in Lancashire Churches in the Borough of West Lancashire Diocese of Blackburn Churches completed in 1936 20th-century Church of England church buildings Austin and Paley buildings Gothic Revival architecture in Lancashire Gothic Revival church buildings in England