Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257355
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257355
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, PARK ROAD
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 MARY THE VIRGIN, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32516 97971
Details
CROSBY
SJ39NW PARK ROAD 778-1/3/112 (South side) 26/03/73 Church of St Mary the Virgin (Formerly Listed as: PARK ROAD Church of St Mary)
II
Church. 1877-86, by WG Habershon; nave extended 1907. Coursed rock-faced red sandstone with yellow sandstone dressings, blue slate roofs with green slate bands. STYLE: Gothic with some Early English features. PLAN: cruciform plan with uncompleted crossing tower, north and south aisles extended to link with early C20 narthex at west end. EXTERIOR: the tall 3-bay nave, with pilasters, has segmental-pointed clerestory windows of 3 cusped lights, and in the west gable (above the added narthex) a tall stepped 3-light west window with deep double-chamfered reveals. The aisles, now of 5 bays, with sturdy buttresses which have 2 offsets, has windows of two 2-centred arched lights with set-in shafts and hoodmoulds with foliated stops. The narthex at the west end (dated 1907) has in its north side a 2-centred arched double-chamfered doorway framed by Perpendicular-style pilasters, and in the west front 2 similar entrances. The transepts, which are almost as tall as the nave, have angle buttresses and large stepped 3-light windows in their gable walls, with slender shafts and 2 orders of moulding. The chancel has one narrow lancet in the north side (the south side covered by later additions), and a large 3-light east window like those of the transepts. The crossing tower, rising only slightly above the nave and transepts, has small lancets near the corners, and a stepped embattled parapet in lighter masonry. INTERIOR: painted brick walls; 3-bay arcades of quatrefoil columns with shafts, 2-centred arches stepped rather than chamfered; similar arch at west end, open to narthex; tall double-chamfered crossing arches rising from clustered piers, and pulpit integrated with the north-eastern pier; hammerbeam roof trusses rising from large moulded and foliated corbels; chancel with organ and piscina in north wall, sedilia in south wall.
Listing NGR: SJ3251697971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463974
- 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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