CHRIST CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD RAILINGS

CHRIST CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD RAILINGS, POST OFFICE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271140
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD RAILINGS, POST OFFICE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271140
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: CHRIST CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD RAILINGS, POST OFFICE LANE

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:: CHRIST CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD RAILINGS, POST OFFICE LANE

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

District:: Halton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49406 81579

Details

SJ 48 SE 36/4/10006 30-NOV-00

POST OFFICE LANE WESTON POINT (North,off) Christ Church and Churchyard Railings

II

Church and churchyard railing. 1841, by Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster for the Weaver Navigation Trustees. Chapel of ease to the church at Weston. Tooled ashlar, with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with coped gables. Early English style. Plinth and buttresses throughout. Cruciform plan, with chancel, transepts, nave, south porch, and west tower with spire. Windows are pointed arched, with hood moulds and mainly simple tracery. Chancel, single bay, has angle buttresses. Traceried east window, 3 lights, with shafts. Above it, a cusped trefoil. Transepts, single bay, have angle buttresses. Gables have 3-light windows with trefoils above. East and west sides have single 2-light windows. Nave, 4 bays, has 2-light windows separated by buttresses. Gabled south porch has chamfered and moulded pointed arched doorway with hood mould, under a coped gable. Door blocked. Single lancets in each side, also blocked. West tower, 3 stages, has gabled angle buttresses. String courses to each stage. Lower stage has blind trefoils to north and south, with segment headed door to north. To west, a pair of single lights, blocked. Middle stage has trefoil to south, and single-light windows to north and south. Bell stage has 2-light pointed arched bell openings on each side, that to south with inserted clock. Octagonal broach spire has 3 tiers of gabled lucarnes, finial and cross. INTERIOR: Not accessible at time of survey. East window has flanking blind arcades, all under linked hoodmould. Nave and chancel have chamfered and moulded arches, that to the nave with hood mould and impost band. Nave and transepts have strutted kingpost roofs, intersecting at the crossing. South transept has organ and screen forming vestry. Some original seating in north transept. OUTSIDE: rectangular plot with chamfered corners, enclosed by a spiked wrought iron railing with curved supports. Pair of matching gates on south side.

Listing NGR: SJ4940681579

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Legacy System number:: 486911
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.