Church of St Helen
Church of St Helen, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199141
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Helen, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199141
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Helen, Church 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 Helen, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- St. Helens (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51289 95238
Details
SJ 59 NW
4/70
ST. HELENS
CHURCH STREET (south side)
Church of St Helen
11.9.51
II
Church. 1916-26. W.D Caröe. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Single vessel nave and chancel, aisles under lean-to roofs, north east tower and chapel, south vestry.
West end has narthex and flanking turrets; four pointed entrances in segmental headed architraves, quatrefoil panelling above. Flying buttresses support nave, which has five-light window with Perpendicular tracery. Low passages with windows of three ogee-headed lights connect with square embattled turrets with two-light windows. Aisles have canted buttresses and three-light Perpendicular windows, clerestory also has three-light windows. Chancel has slightly canted east end with two-, three-, two-light windows with transoms.
Tower has diagonal buttresses and smaller side buttresses. Segmental arches support gallery below paired two-light straight-headed bell openings. Plain parapet and square south east stair turret. North face has four-light window cut by buttress, base of tower forms west bay of chapel, east bay has four-light east window. To west of tower, a gabled porch and transept.
Interior: five bay arcades with four-centred arches has taller blind arcades enclosing clerestory windows. Aisles have elliptical-arched arcades to passages. West end has arches to narthex passages and open octofoils to turrets.
Octagonal font with Classical font cover. Chancel has good woodwork: choir stalls, reredos and parclose screens designed by Caröe. Organ loft in tower and two bay minstrels' gallery to south.
The church shows imaginative use of brick work; the tower is an important local landmark.
Listing NGR: SJ5128995238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216360
- 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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