St Mary Magdalene's Church, Ribbleton

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Ribbleton
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Ribbleton
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Ribbleton Location in Preston
Coordinates: 53°46′35″N 2°39′37″W / 53.7765°N 2.6603°W
Location	Ribbleton Avenue, Ribbleton, Preston, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Mary Magdalene, Ribbleton
History
Dedication	Saint Mary Magdalene
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	R. Knill Freeman Austin and Paley
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1888
Completed	1941
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone
Administration
Parish	Ribbleton
Deanery	Preston
Archdeaconry	Lancaster
Diocese	Blackburn
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Rvd Fr Keith Fenton

St Mary Magdalene's Church is in Ribbleton Avenue, Ribbleton, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Preston, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with that of The Church of the Ascension, Ribbleton.^[1]

History

The church was built in 1888–91 to a design by R. Knill Freeman.^[2] Additions were made to it in about 1901 by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley,^[3] and again by the same architectural practice in 1938–41, with a new chancel, chapel, aisles and vestries.^[4][5]

Architecture

St Mary's is constructed in red sandstone with dressings in yellow sandstone. It contains features in Decorated style. Its plan includes short aisles, and transepts of two unequal bays. Along the aisles are parapets hiding the roof. There is a large rose windows in each transept. The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it as "an odd building" that "was never finished".^[2]

See also

• List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1914)
• List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44)

References

1. St Mary Magdalene, Ribbleton, Church of England, retrieved 1 April 2012
2. Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 545
3. Price (1998), p. 96.
4. Price (1998), p. 101.
5. Brandwood et al. (2012), p. 255.

Bibliography

• 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
• Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, ISBN 1-86220-054-8