Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, SCHOFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068484
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, SCHOFIELD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068484
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, SCHOFIELD STREET
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, SCHOFIELD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6542599524
Details
LEIGH SCHOFIELD STREET
SD 69 NE
6/38 Christ Church
II
Church. 1850-4. By E. H. Shellard. Hammer-dressed stone with
slate roof. Nave, clerestory, aisles, chancel and west
tower. Gothic Revival in a Perpendicular style. 6-bay nave
and aisles and 2-bay chancel with projecting plinth and
weathered buttresses. 3-light aisle windows; 2-light
clerestory and chancel windows. Porch in bay 1. 5-light east
window. Gables have raked parapets with cross finials. 3-
stage castellated tower with weathered diagonal buttresses
topped by crocketed corner pinnacles. West door below
crocketed ogee hoodmould, two 2-light belfry openings with
similar hoods and a 3-light transomed west window. Interior:
double-chamfered nave arcade on octagonal columns with
moulded capitals. Arch-braced collar-tie roof trusses. West
gallery with arcaded parapet has been partitioned off below
in C20. Timber fittings. Stained glass.
Listing NGR: SJ6542599524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213507
- 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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