CHURCH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE

CHURCH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE, VICARAGE PLACE, PRESCOT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199627
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE, VICARAGE PLACE, PRESCOT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199627
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE, VICARAGE PLACE, PRESCOT

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE, VICARAGE PLACE, PRESCOT

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

District:: Knowsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Prescot
National Grid Reference:: SJ 46413 92711

Details

SJ 49 SE 6/43

PRESCOT VICARAGE PLACE (west end) Church of Our Lady Immaculate

GV II Catholic church. 1856-7. By J. Hansom. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 7-bay nave, shallow transepts and 2-bay chancel. Nave has 2-light windows with plate tracery between deep weathered buttresses; gabled south porch has diagonal buttresses and statue in niche above entrance. West front has 2-light windows flanking buttress with canted inner angles forming stair turret; top gargoyles and short spire with iron cross. South transept has diagonal buttresses and 4-light window with Geometrical tracery; north transept has extension for confessionals and passage to presbytery. Chancel has 2 windows of 2 lights to south and 4-light east window. Interior: Roof has panels with C20 colour scheme. West gallery on braced timber posts. Stepped triple segmental-pointed arches to transepts on piers with foliate capitals. Chancel arch has continuous mouldings and hood mould with angel stops; flanking marble altars and reredoses. Chancel reredos has gabled traceried panels, cresting and central gabled aedicule.

Listing NGR: SJ4641292711

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Legacy System number:: 215301
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.