ST KATHERINES CHAPEL (LYDIATE ABBEY)

ST KATHERINES CHAPEL (LYDIATE ABBEY), SOUTHPORT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1199469
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:: ST KATHERINES CHAPEL (LYDIATE ABBEY)
Statutory Address:: ST KATHERINES CHAPEL (LYDIATE ABBEY), SOUTHPORT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1199469
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:: ST KATHERINES CHAPEL (LYDIATE ABBEY)
Statutory Address 1:: ST KATHERINES CHAPEL (LYDIATE ABBEY), SOUTHPORT ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST KATHERINES CHAPEL (LYDIATE ABBEY), SOUTHPORT ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Lydiate
National Grid Reference:: SD 36391 04889

Details

SD 30 SE; 7/97

LYDIATE, SOUTHPORT ROAD (west side), St. Katherine's Chapel (Lydiate Abbey)

11.10.68

G.V.

II*

Ruined chapel. Late C15 or early C16. For John or Lawrence Ireland. Stone. 5-bay nave, south porch and west tower. Diagonal buttresses and remains of cornice to nave. Three-light Perpendicular south windows with transoms, tracery remaining to central windows, between weathered buttresses. Porch at western end now has only lower parts of walls remaining (1985) and Tudor-arched headed to inner entrance. Blank north wall with buttresses. East end has walls flanking window up to springers. Tower of three stages with dripmoulds and diagonal buttresses. West window, tracery missing. Top 2-light bell openings. Interior has 4-centred tower arch on half-octagonal responds.

Listing NGR: SD3639104889

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Legacy System number:: 216496
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.