Church of St Benet and Chapel House
CHURCH OF ST BENET AND CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075849
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Benet and Chapel House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BENET AND CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075849
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Benet and Chapel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BENET AND CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL 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 BENET AND CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD3589700193
Details
NETHERTON CHAPEL LANE
SD 30 SE
(west side)
7/122 Church of
St. Benet and
11.10.68 Chapel House
II*
Catholic church and priest's house, now workshop and private
house. 1793. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof to
house, stone slate roof to church. House of 2 storeys and 3
bays faces street, chapel to rear of 2 bays. House has
windows with wedge lintels, those to ground floor sashed with
glazing bars, those to 1st floor have casements, with central
blind window. Central round-headed entrance has flat
pilasters and open pediment, complete fanlight and 6-panel
door. Gable-end stacks. Right return has 2 windows and
round-headed sashed stair window. Chapel has round-headed
windows which are sashed with glazing bars, those to top
sashes intersecting. Round-headed entrance to west end of
north side has blind tympanum and paired doors. West end has
stone coped gable with kneelers and bell-cote supporting
cross; window with tripartite sash with glazing bars lights
gallery. Interior remains largely intact. Panelled dado and
cornice. West gallery has stick balustrade and dog-leg stair
on north side. East wall has paired fluted corinthian
pilasters on marbled bases, entablature with urns and
anthemions to frieze and modillioned cornice, and open
pediment. Central (round-headed panel painted in colours
remeniscent of dawn sky has top relief of swagged curtains,
descending dove with gloria of rays flanked by winged cherubs'
heads. Marble sarcophagus altar in form of cyma moulding.
This is an important example of an early Catholic church and
is one of the best preserved examples in the north-west.
Listing NGR: SD3589700193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216519
- 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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