Church of St John Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, WEST DERBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1063778
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, WEST DERBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1063778
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, WEST DERBY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, WEST DERBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 38297 92406
Details
SJ 3892 WEST DERBY ROAD (south side) L13
21/1352 Church of 28.6.52 St. John Baptist
G.V. I
Church. 1868-70. G. F. Bodley. Cream stone with red stone dressings and random banding, tile roofs, with slate roofs to aisles. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, west tower, chancel and north chapel, south organ loft and vestry, short passage leading to deatched vestry. Tower has angle buttresses with gabled traceried panels. West entrance and 3-light window above with intersecting tracery. Top stage has 2-light louvred bell openings. Panelled parapet with pinnacles and spire on octagonal drum with 41 gabled 2-light openings. Lean-to stair turret to south-east angle. 5-bay nave has 2-light clerestory windows, and 3- light nave windows between buttresses. One segmental pointed window to north aisle and south gabled arch. Porch with flat roof and parapet, and statue in niche over entrance. North chapel has 2 paired 2-light windows with statue of St. Mark in niche; 3-light east window. Chancel has 5-light east window with intersecting tracery and 3-light south window. Vestry has unusual fluted gutter spout. Detached vestry has 2-light window to Green Lane and 2 square-headed 2-light windows flanking lateral stack to south; connecting passage has timber continuous traceried window of 6 lights, with entrance. Interior has arcades on octagonal piers. Walls are richly stencilled above sill level,roofs are also stencilled.Wall painted above chancel arch by Kempe (a rare example). Fittings are all richly painted. Nave has octagonal front or panelled base with marble shafts; pyramidal cover and lectern. Tower now has chapel of the Holy Rood; reredos, alter and credence table adapted from rood screen, 1890, by Bodley, taken from Dunstable Priory. Chancel screen has ribbed coving and loft parapet, chapels have similar screens, south chapel in end of aisle has screen behind reredos. Chancel has canopied stalls, parclose screen to north, organ to south. Rich reredos. Brass to Father Brockman, 1925. East and south windows by Morris and Co. Vestry has painted ceiling, passage has arch-braced cambered tie beams, detached vestry has cope- chests. A fine example of Bodley's early work with a remarkably complete interior, one of the finest examples of Victorian polychromy.
Listing NGR: SJ3829592405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359734
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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