Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, KENSINGTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075179
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, KENSINGTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075179
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, KENSINGTON
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, KENSINGTON
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 36775 90958
Details
SJ 3690 KENSINGTON L7
28/671 Christ Church (formerly listed 14.3.75 under Kensington Road)
- II
Church, now used as furniture warehouse. 1870. W. & G. Audsley in Italian Romanesque style. Dark red brick with bands of blue and orange brick and stone. 5-bay nave with aisles under lean-to roofs. North west tower. One-bay chancel with transepts. Aisles have paired round-headed windows between pilaster strips and corbel table. Triple clerestory windows. West end has window of 3 lights with colonnettes and rose window over. Tower has entrance with central column and round tympanum. 2 storeys of lancets and bell stage with paired round-headed lights with louvres under relieving arch; top cornice. Chancel has east window of 3 stepped lights, transepts have 3 round-headed lights with rose window over, that to south probably organ loft. Interior has arcade with granite columns with Byzantine capitals and unchamfered arcades. Much brick polychromy. Many windows now blocked (1984). King-post roof with arch- braced tie beams.
Listing NGR: SJ3677590958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 214348
- 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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