Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, FORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292173
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, FORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292173
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, FORD 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, FORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 27188 88119
Details
SJ28NE
789-1/3/283
BIRKENHEAD
UPTON
FORD ROAD (North side)
Church of St Mary
28/03/74
GV
II
Parish church. 1868. By John Cunningham. Roughly coursed and squared rubble with Welsh fishscale slate roofs. Nave withsouth-west tower and polygonal apse. Early Decorated style. Stepped foiled lancet window to west with blind trefoil over, and hood mould with carved heads as stops. 2 stage tower with angle buttresses. South door with triple shafts with stiff leaf capitals. Two tiers of triple lancets in west wall, and triple lancets to bell chamber with superimposed clock. Corbel table with beasts heads. Pinnacles and embattled parapet. Nave divided into 3 bays by buttresses, with triple lancets in outer bays, and 2-light Decorated window in centre, all with hood moulds and sill band. Canted vestry to south, with trefoiled window in west wall, and lancet window with rose over in gable. Polygonal apse with wide foiled lancet windows separated by buttresses. Series of 3 gables on north wall form vestry and hall complex now partially rebuilt and incorporated into the body of the church.
Interior: aisleless nave, extended to north by opening up into rebuilt original halls and vestry. Arched brace roof trusses with king struts over collar, carried on stone corbels. Plain moulded chamfered arch to polygonal apse. Richly decorated marble pulpit with foliate capitals and statues. Stained glass: figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity in south wall, 1888. Representation of last supper carried across 5 windows of apse, painterly style, dated 1874.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ2718888119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389198
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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