CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, GREEN LANE, FORMBY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075857
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, GREEN LANE, FORMBY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075857
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, GREEN LANE, FORMBY

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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 ST PETER, GREEN LANE, FORMBY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Formby
National Grid Reference:: SD 29932 08271

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/08/2014

SD 20 NE 2/38

FORMBY GREEN LANE (east side) Church of St. Peter 19.7.66

GV II Church. 1746 with chancel of 1873 and later vestry. Brick with stone dressings, chancel of stone; slate roof. Nave, west tower, chancel, north vestry and south chapel. 3-bay nave has stone base with roll moulding, dentilled brick cornice and eaves; rusticated quoins and coped gables with ball finials. Round-headed windows have apron panels, moulded sills, angle pilasters with Doric entablatures and archivolts with keys. Fixed small-paned glazing with intersecting heads. South entrance has flat pilasters, entablature with pulvinated frieze and pediment with date, 1746; timber framed and half-glazed porch, 1884. West tower has porch with angle pilasters and Doric entablature, inserted plastered drum has west round-headed window and south entrance, drum possibly dates from 1830 when gallery inserted. Tower has quoins and cornice, west round window. Top octagonal bell stage has round-headed louvred bell openings on sill course and cupola with ball finial. West end of nave has round-headed windows with round windows above. Chancel has angle buttressed and 3-light east window with Geometrical tracery; elaborate gable cross. Chapel has diagonal buttresses and corbelled cornice, 3-light east and gableted 2-light south windows. Vestry similar, with stack and C20 extension in style of nave. Interior: roof of 1900 has elaborate timber kingpost trusses. West gallery on timber columns has entablature with dentilled cornice; original pews. Painted board recording enlargement of church in 1830 probably refers to gallery. Chancel has moulded arch, no capitals, and royal arms of 1710. 2-bay arcade to chapel. Stained glass east window. Chest dated 1740.

Listing NGR: SD2993208271

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Legacy System number:: 216435
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.