Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, West Derby Village, Liverpool, L12 5EA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356273
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, West Derby Village, Liverpool, L12 5EA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356273
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, West Derby Village, Liverpool, L12 5EA
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, West Derby Village, Liverpool, L12 5EA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 39723 93346
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 February 2025 to reformat the text to current standards.
SJ 3993
17/78
WEST DERBY VILLAGE
Church of St Mary
(Formerly liisted as Church of Saint Mary, Meadow Lane, WEST DERBY, previously listed as: ALMONDS GREEN (east side) L12, Church of Saint Mary)
12.07.66
GV.
II*
Church. 1853-56. Sir George Gilbert Scott. Stone with slate roofs. Five bay nave with aisles under lean-to roofs and north and south porches. Transepts and crossing tower. Three bay chancel and north and south chapels; vestry on south side. Geometrical style.
West entrance of two orders with window above of four-lights, aisle west windows of two-lights. Aisles have cornice and parapet, windows of three-lights and stone rainwater heads in the form of beasts; offset buttresses. Clerestory has two-light windows. Porch, entrance of two orders, sides have quatrefoil and trefoil openings (north porch blocked, 1984). North transept has four-light north window, spherical triangle windows to east and west; canted stair turret with pinnacle to west. Tower of two stages has octagonal angle turrets with crocketed pinnacles. Lower stage has five bay blind arcade with cusped arches with frieze of quatrefoils and embattled parapet over. Upper stage has paired two-light bell openings with canopied niche above, Lombard frieze and pierced parapet. Chancel has apsidal end, two-light windows and Lombard frieze. Chapels have three-light east window and two-light side windows. North Chapel windows blocked (1984). Vestry has windows of two and three cusped lights an parapet. South transept, three two-light
windows with chamfered buttresses below and rose above.
INTERIOR: has arcades with round columns, wall shafts and scissor-braced roofs. Crossing with clustered shafts and triforium with two-light traceried openings; flat ceiling over. Chancel has two bay arcade on quatrefoil piers to south chapel, organ loft to north. Octagonal font has traceried canopy. Pulpit, choir stalls, chancel panelling and screen and reredos at south chapel by J.O Scott, 1906. Stained glass mostly by Hardman. Of particular note is the fine carving of the arcade capitals. One of Sir Gilbert Scott's better works, with a particularly good interior. (Sundial from previous church set on south wall and dated 1793)
Listing NGR: SJ3972393346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213670
- 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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