Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHILDWALL ABBEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1356299
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHILDWALL ABBEY ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1356299
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHILDWALL ABBEY ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHILDWALL ABBEY ROAD

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 41476 89079

Details

SJ 48 NW CHILDWALL ABBEY ROAD L16

8/264 Church of 28.6.52 All Saints

G.V. I

Church. Chancel C14, south aisle and porch perhaps C15, additions in C18, west tower and spire 1810-11, north aisle 1833, rebuilt in part 1900-5. West tower has 2-light Y- tracery window and 2-light bell openings over 3-face clock; parapet with blind arcading, gargoyles, and needle spire. South aisle has embattled parapet, porch with 4-centred arched entrance and niche above. The Salisbury chapel, 1739- 40, has a south window of 3 lights and a 2-light square- headed east window; the aisle itself has cusped 2-light square-headed windows. North aisle has 3-light segmental- pointed windows and a 7-light window to the Plumbe Chapel of 1777, an ornamental cornice and embattled parapet. North chancel aisle is former vestry of 1753. Chancel has 2 straight-headed windows of 2 cusped lights; east window probably C18.Interior: Nave arcades of 3 bays, octagonal piers and double chamfered arches, the central one wider, pier removed when Salisbury chapel built. West gallery across nave and south aisle, C18. 3-bay arcade between north aisle and north extension, 1833. 8 hatchments in nave and north aisle. Nave roof has tie beams with tracery above. Chancel roof is waggon vaulted. Royal arms of 1664 above chancel arch. South aisle has 2 brasses to H. Norris (died 1524) and his wife. Remains of C14 piscina on south side of chancel. Painted memorial to Major Pitcairn Campbell (died 1855), in north chancel aisle, a rare example. Porch has stones from Saxon coffin. Norman capital embedded in wall of north chancel aisle. Brass chandelier, 1737, in nave; C19 replicas in chancel. South aisle east window by Kempe, 1900- 5. The only remaining mediaeval church in Liverpool.

Listing NGR: SJ4147589078

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Legacy System number:
213888
Legacy System:
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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.

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