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IoE Number:
184424
Location:
RIVINGTON PIKE TOWER AT SD 642 137,
RIVINGTON, CHORLEY, LANCASHIRE
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
N/A
Date listed:
17 April 1967
Date of last amendment:
17 April 1967
Grade
II
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RIVINGTON
SD 61 SW
14/170 Rivington Pike Tower at
SD 642 137
17.4.67
- II
Tower. Built 1733 by John Andrews of Little Lever, owner of Manor of
Rivington; said to be on site of earlier beacon. Gritstone. About 5
metres square and 7 metres high. High chamfered plinth, string course,
oversailing parapet crowned with pointed corner and intermediate steps.
One blocked rectangular opening in each side including doorway on south
side with an ornamental pointed "hoodmould" above it breaking the string
course. History: built as hunting lodge; contained a fireplace (and
formerly had a chimney) and small cellar. Reference: M.D. Smith
Leverhulme's Rivington (Chorley 1984) pp.7-9.