Church of Saint Mary and Saint John
Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Crow Lane East
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283597
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary and Saint John
- Statutory Address:
- Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Crow Lane East
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283597
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary and Saint John
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Crow Lane East
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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 Saint Mary and Saint John, Crow Lane East
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- St. Helens (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 58116 95666
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/04/2018
SJ 59 NE
5/31
NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS
CROW LANE EAST (south side)
Church of Saint Mary and Saint John
II
Catholic church. 1864, spire 1880. By G. Blount. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, north west steeple, chancel with flanking gabled chapels.
Tower has setback buttresses and lancets; paired lancet bell openings; splayed spire. West end has pointed entrance and spherical triangle window. Six bay nave has paired lancet aisle windows and triple lancet clerestory windows; one squat buttress to north, and confessionals and vestry to south. Canted chancel has clasping buttresses and cornice with animal heads, windows of two lights.
INTERIOR: arches between chapels and chancel and aisles, on corbels in form of busts including S.S. Mary and John and contemporary bishop and pope. Reredoses to chapels remain, that to chancel removed.
Listing NGR: SJ5811695666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216321
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Pollard, R, The Buildings of England: Lancashire, Liverpool and the South-West, (2006), 526
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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