Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257554
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257554
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE, LIVERPOOL 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 LUKE, LIVERPOOL 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 32158 99855
Details
CROSBY
SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD 778-1/3/56 (East side) Church of St Luke
II
Church. 1853-4, by A & G Holme (Pevsner); recently severely damaged by fire and substantially re-built at rear and internally in C20 style. Coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, metal sheet roof. STYLE: Simple Decorated. PLAN: wide aisleless nave with north and south transepts, chancel, and west steeple. EXTERIOR: the tower, of 3 equal stages successively set back, with full-height diagonal buttresses, has a large 2-centred arched west doorway moulded in 3 orders, with a hoodmould, a 1-stage semi-circular vice in the left angle, with staggered cusped spherical-triangle windows, a 2-centred 3-light window to the 2nd stage, with tracery, a clockface in the lower part of the 3rd stage breaking into a 2-light louvred belfry window on this side, similar belfry windows in the other sides, and a broach spire swept at the foot. The 4-bay nave, with buttresses, has a large gabled porch to the 2nd bay of the south side, with a doorway like that in the tower, and 2-centred arched 2-light windows in the other bays, with tracery. Full-height 2-bay transepts in similar style, with larger windows in the gable walls. C20 metal-clad turret at crossing; C20 apse and similar additions to chancel. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ3215899855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463750
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969), 115
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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