CHURCH OF SAINT MARY

CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MEADOW LANE, WEST DERBY, 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 SAINT MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MEADOW LANE, WEST DERBY, L12 5EA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1356273
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MEADOW LANE, WEST DERBY, L12 5EA

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:: CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, MEADOW LANE, WEST DERBY, 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 03/01/2016

SJ 3993 17/78

WEST DERBY, Meadow Lane, Church of Saint Mary

(Formerly listed as: ALMONDS GREEN (east side) L12, Church of Saint Mary)

12.07.66

G.V.

II*

Church. 1853-56. Sir George Gilbert Scott. Stone with slate roofs. 5-bay nave with aisles under lean-to roofs and north and south porches. Transepts and crossing tower. 3-bay chancel and north and south chapels; vestry on south side. Geometrical style. West entrance of 2 orders with window above of 4 lights, aisle west windows of 2 lights. Aisles have cornice and parapet, windows of 3 lights and stone rainwater heads in the form of beasts; offset buttresses. Clerestory has 2-light windows. Porch, entrance of 2 orders, sides have quatrefoil and trefoil openings (north porch blocked, 1984). North transept has 4-light north window, spherical triangle windows to east and west; canted stair turret with pinnacle to west. Tower of 2 stages has octagonal angle turrets with crocketed pinnacles. Lower stage has 5-bay blind arcade with cusped arches with frieze of quatrefoils and embattled parapet over. Upper stage has paired 2-light bell openings with canopied niche above, Lombard frieze and pierced parapet. Chancel has apsidal end, 2-light windows and Lombard frieze. Chapels have 3- light east window and 2-light side windows. North Chapel windows blocked (1984). Vestry has windows of 2 and 3 cusped lights an parapet. South transept, three 2-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 2-light traceried openings; flat ceiling over. Chancel has 2-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

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Legacy System number:: 213670
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.