Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136639
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136639
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, 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 MARY THE VIRGIN, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldford and Saighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 43767 60548
Details
SJ 46 PW SAIGHTON C.P. CHAPEL LANE (East side)
3/28 Church of St Mary the Virgin
1/6/1967 II*
Church with late Cll or early C12 chancel arch and, probably, masonry in nave and chancel; C14 and C15 windows; south chapel late C15; belfry, south porch, vestry and general restoration 1896 by W M Boden at expense of 1st Duke of Westminster. Squared, roughly coursed red sandstone in large blocks; slate roof; oak-framed, louvred west belfry on ridge with low, square shingled spire. Aisleless nave and chancel; four-centred archway from nave to chapel of 1 bay. Each respond of the chancel arch has 3 attached shafts, the outer two linked by 4 single beakheads which suggest Norse influence; the south capital has crudely carved foliage and faces - the north respond was renewed 1896. On the face to the nave of the porch arch (rebuilt probably C14) are 4 carved voussoirs with motifs probably derived from Norse sun symbols and from Romanesque palmettes. The font is a stone baluster with hollowed trough, probably C17. A pair of marble monuments stand in the south chapel: to Sir Robert Cunliffe, 1778, right, signed by Joseph Nollekens, with a seated putto holding a portrait medallion against a dark grey obelisk; to Sir Ellis Cunliffe, 1769, left, matching Sir Robert, but with a standing putto. Good stained glass, 1897, in the manner of the Arts and Crafts movement, in a plain inserted 3-light north window (Nave).
Listing NGR: SJ4376760548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55367
- 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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