Anglican Chapel at Toxteth Park Cemetery
ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TOXTETH PARK CEMETERY, SMITHDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078257
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Anglican Chapel at Toxteth Park Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TOXTETH PARK CEMETERY, SMITHDOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078257
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Anglican Chapel at Toxteth Park Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TOXTETH PARK CEMETERY, SMITHDOWN ROAD
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:
- ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TOXTETH PARK CEMETERY, SMITHDOWN ROAD
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 37698 88915
Details
SJ3788 LlVERPOOL SMITHDOWN ROAD
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392/33/10120 Anglican Chapel at Toxteth
Park Cemetery
GV II
Anglican cemetery chapel.1855-56, by TD Barry. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and patterned Welsh slate roofs with remains of crested ridge tiles. Decorated Gothic style. Plinth, buttresses, coped gables and hips. Pointed arched openings, the larger openings with hood moulds and the larger windows traceried. Single-light windows are cusped and have lost their original glazing. Nave and chancel under single roof, paired east and west porches, NW octagonal bell tower. East end has a 3-light window, and west end a similar 4-light window, each with a small light in the gable above. North and south sides have a central buttress, flanked by pairs of single-light windows. NW bell tower, 3 stages, has full height buttresses with gabled setoffs at the foot, and crenellated parapet. One lancet window to lower stage, and 4 single lancet openings to bell stage. NW porch has blocked doorway with roll-moulded head and shafts, now missing. NE porch, forming a vestry, has a smaller doorway, and on the south side, a shouldered external stack with coped octagonal flue. Canted west porches have steep pitched hipped roofs, that to south with iron cross finial. Each has a roll-moulded doorway with shafts, and double doors. Side bays have pairs of single-light windows, and above, coped through-eaves dormers with pierced spherical triangles.
INTERIOR: Plain rendered, with chamfered pointed arched openings. Nave has scissor braced roof. East windows has figurative stained glass, early/mid C20. Large moulded pointed arch at west end, with shaft responds. Traceried wooden glazed screen, with glazed double doors. West porches and vestibule have intricate scissor-braced hipped roofs. Fittings include open back benches, clergy seat and prayer desk, lectern and trestles, all C19. The principal chapel to an early municipal cemetery, with characteristic functional features, distinctive architectural design of a good standard, and largely intact.
Listing NGR: SJ3769888915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477118
- 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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