Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199239
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199239
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEW 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 NICHOLAS, NEW 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 52185 92631
Details
SJ 59 SW ST. HELENS NEW STREET (west side)
8/84 Church of - Saint Nicholas
G.V. II
Church. 1848-9. Sharpe and Paley, tower of 1897. Rubble walling, with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 5-bay nave with aisles under lean-to roof; west tower; chancel with south organ loft. Aisles have cornice with beasts and parapet; 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery. Gabled south porch with pointed entrance of one order. Clerestory has spherical triangle windows. Tower has diagonal buttresses; west window of 3 lights with transom; 2-light louvred bell openings; embattled parapet; low stair turret. 3-bay chancel has gabled setback buttresses and foliated cornice and parapet. Small north vestry. 2 windows of 2 lights to north and south and 3-light east window. Organ loft has gable and 2-light window above buttress; east window in angle, of 2 lights under half relieving arch. Interior: high narrow nave with arcades on round piers. Collar-truss roof on wall shafts on angel corbels. Chancel arch on corbelled wall shafts with foliated corbels and capitals. Octagonal font with clustered shafts. Pulpit corbelled from wall with pointed entrance and canted stair turret in north aisle. Chancel has arch-braced collar roof. North and south stained glass windows of 1850's and 1890's. East window dated 1879 probably by Holiday and Powell; flanking commandment panels with nodding ogee heads.
Listing NGR: SJ5218592631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216375
- 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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