St Saviour's Church, Aughton

St Saviour's Church, Aughton
St Saviour's Church, Aughton
	St Saviour's Church, Aughton, from the east
	St Saviour's Church, Aughton Location in the City of Lancaster district
	54°06′09″N 2°41′21″W / 54.1025°N 2.6892°W
Location	Aughton, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Saviour, Aughton
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	E. G. Paley
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1864
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Blackburn
Archdeaconry	Lancaster
Deanery	Tunstall
Parish	Halton
Clergy
Rector	Rev Susan Seed
Priest(s)	Helen Leathard
Laity
Reader(s)	Martin Wakelin,
Organist(s)	Francis Roe
Churchwarden(s)	Mitzi Hayhurst, Hilary Carr
Parish administrator	Sandi Haythornthwaite

St Saviour's Church is an Anglican parish church to the north of the hamlet of Aughton, Lancashire, England.

Ecclesiastical organisation

The church is within the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with those of St Wilfrid, Halton and St Luke, Slyne-with-Hest.^[1]

History

The church was built in 1864 and designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. It cost £590 (equivalent of £70,000 in 2023),^[2] and provided seating for 100 people.^[3] In 1913–14 the successors in the Lancaster practice, Austin and Paley added a parclose screen.^[4]

Architecture

It is a small church with lancet windows, including a triple lancet at the east end. It has a bellcote at the west end, and a south porch.^[5]

References

^ St Saviour, Aughton, Church of England, retrieved 26 August 2011
^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 220.
^ Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 248.
^ Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 88.

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