Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1220393
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1220393
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SCHOOL LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burscough
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 44499 12328
Details
BURSCOUGH
SD41SW LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH 663-1/2/7 (East side) 11/08/72 Church of St John
II*
Church. 1829-32, by Daniel Stewart, for Church Commissioners; altered internally 1857; restored and chancel added 1887-9 by Waddington & Sons of Burnley; vestry added in C20. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Gothick style. Nave with added chancel and vestry added to south side of this. The gabled 3-bay west facade has 4 polygonal buttresses finished as embattled turrets, and a square bellcote on the apex with gableted sides and an ogival top with a crocketted pinnacle; a 2-centred arched west doorway with 2 orders of moulding, double doors with Gothick tracery, and a hoodmould with carved stops; a blind 3-light window above the doorway and tall 2-light blind windows in the outer bays. The 5-bay side walls have buttresses and tall 2-centred arched 2-light windows with deeply splayed reveals, tracery in the heads, hoodmoulds, and C20 glazing. The chancel has corner turrets, coupled 2-light windows in the sides and a 5-light east window. INTERIOR not inspected, but contains 3-sided galleries (inserted in 1857).
Listing NGR: SD4449912328
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 386251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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