CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1136639
Date first listed: 01-Jun-1967
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHAPEL LANE
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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: Saighton
National Grid Reference: SJ 43767 60548
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History
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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
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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.
End of official listing