Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HUYTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075535
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HUYTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075535
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HUYTON LANE
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 MICHAEL, HUYTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Knowsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 44267 91130
Details
HUYTON-WITH-ROBY HUYTON LANE SJ 49 SW (north side) 5/9 Church of 6/6/51 St. Michael
G.V. II*
Church. South arcade, and chancel C14, tower C14, the top dated 1664, north aisle and arcade 1815, south aisles 1822; Case Mausoleum, now vestry, 1681. Stone with stone slate chancel roof. Nave aisles under hipped roofs, chancel, west tower and north vestry. Tower has moulded base; diagonal buttresses with pinnacles at bell stage. West entrance has continuous mouldings; frieze over has roundels and quatrefoils with shields; drip mould over; bell stage has sill course and 3-light louvred bell openings with uncusped Perpendicular tracery; cornice with gargoyles and embattled parapet with obelisk pinnacles with iron vanes. South aisle has embattled parapet and diagonal buttresses; 2-light windows with uncusped Perpendicular tracery and hood moulds with foliate stops. Porch similar with elaborate wrought iron lamp bracket. Rainwater heads are dated. North aisle similar. Clerestory has embattled parapet and 3-light windows. Chancel has 3 lights with recessed arched heads to south, and original south priest's door, with strap hinges and studs. 5-light east window. Vestry has connecting passage to north of chancel; cornice, parapet with panelled pilasters; east entrance, now window, with bolection moulded architrave, broken segmental pediment with obelisk; south blind vesica. Interior: 5-bay arcades, double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Roof probably C16 has moulded principal rafters and purlins, cambered tie beams. Tower arch has C19 timber screen. Early Norman font, round, with arcading and heads, rosettes to rim. C15 font, octagonal with shields in quatrefoils. Charity board dated 1710. Chancel screen c.1500, removed during Civil War and replaced with repairs 1663. Octagonal timber pulpit with tracery. Chancel roof, C17, false hammer-beam roof has tracery panels, pendants and wind braces. North organ loft. Reredos has niches with tall canopies. Wrought iron altar rail, 2 windows to south aisle by Holiday, 1883 and 1885. Vestry has memorial in architrave with scrolly crest. Alabaster effigy of priest, John de Winwick, 1359.
Listing NGR: SJ4426791130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 215267
- 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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