Church of All Hallows

CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, ALLERTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1068414
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Church of All Hallows
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, ALLERTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1068414
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Church of All Hallows
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, ALLERTON ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, ALLERTON 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 39984 87473

Details

SJ 3987 ALLERTON ROAD L18

39/54 Church of All 28.6.52 Hallows

G.V. I

Church. 1872-6. G.E.Grayson. For J. Bibby in memory of his wife. Stone with slate roofs. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, transepts, west tower (ritual west is actual north), chancel with vestry to north and organ loft to south under lean-to roofs. South-east mausoleum to the Bibby family, Tower of Somerset type, with angle buttresses, panelled, embattled parapet with pinnacles at angles and smaller side pinnacles. West entrance and 4-light west window with late Decorated tracery. 2 windows of 2 lights, 3-face clock and 2 bell openings of 2 lights with pierced stone screens. Flanking porches with diagonal buttresses. 4-bay nave has 3- light aisle windows with reticulated tracery and 2-light clerestory windows. Transepts have 4-light windows, one north-east window. Chancel has 5-light east window and 2 north windows. Mausoleum has diagonal buttress and parapet with pinnacle, cusped arched entrance and window with railings. Interior: 5-bay nave arcade, wider arches to transepts. Chancel has lower walls faced with marble and banded upper walls; 2-bay arcade to organ chamber. Low chancel wall with corbelled pulpit; choir stalls. Marble font on octagonal base under tower. South transept has wall monument to J.Bibby (died 1840), figure of Hope with profile below. Free standing monument to Mrs. Bibby by Fabiani (taken from mausoleum). Windows by Morris and Co, designed by Burne-Jones, except North transept east window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. West and east windows of 1875-6 (the latter the Adoration of the Lamb). South transept window of 1877, 4 Good Men; north transept window of 1880, 4 Good Women. Chancel north windows of 1881, Angels. 8 aisle windows of 1882-6, scenes from the Life of Christ. The windows show Burne-Jones' development as a stained-glass designer and constitute one of the most complete sets to be found; the cartoons were re-used at e.g. Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. A. Charles Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, 1974 pp 41,52.

Listing NGR: SJ3998687471

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Sources

Books and journals
Sewter, A, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, (1975), 41, 52

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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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