Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136221
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136221
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S STREET
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 MARY, ST MARY'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crewe
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70182 55720
Details
SJ 75 NW FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE ST.MARY'S STREET
2/56 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV II
Catholic Church, 1890-1 (Pevsner) by Pugin & Pugin. Free Gothic. Red
brick with slate roof. S.W.tower, 5-bay nave with side aisles and
apsidal chancel. The tower has reducing angle buttresses, geometrical
windows at lower level, lancets flanking niches with statues at
clerestorey level, lancets in pairs at nave roof level and large
louvred lancets at bell stage. The roof is pyramidal with overhanging
eaves and mid-slope equilateral lucarnes. Narthex form nave entrance
of ledged and battened door in stone dressed gothic headed gabled
porch with kneelers, copings and cross finial. Geometrical windows to
nave gable and chancel, perpendicular to aisles and quatrefoil to
clerestorey all in stone frames. Half-brick-thick inter-window piers,
stone sill band, moulded eaves cornices, gable coping, lead hips to
chancel, crested tile ridge and cross finials.
Interior: Octagonal stone columns support the aisle. arcades. The
mainly gilded stone reredos has such gothic features as daggers,
crockets and brattishing; also a baldacchino on marble shafts
covering the tabernacle. Stone side altars flank the main altar and
front the aisles, all separated from the nave by marble communion rail
with religious motifs. Panelled ceilings throughout with arched
chancel and nave trusses carried by carved stone corbels. Moulded
plaster stations of the cross.
Listing NGR: SJ7018255720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56699
- 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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