Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras
Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras, Buckingham Avenue, Liverpool, L17 3BA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1359871
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras, Buckingham Avenue, Liverpool, L17 3BA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1359871
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras, Buckingham Avenue, Liverpool, L17 3BA
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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:
- Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras, Buckingham Avenue, Liverpool, L17 3BA
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 37591 88494
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 March 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 3788
33/1246
BUCKINGHAM AVENUE
Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras
(Formerly listed as Church of Saint Agnes, ULLET ROAD, L17)
14.3.75.
G.V.
I
Church, 1883-85. J. L. Pearson. Brick with stone dressings, tile roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs,east and west transepts (ritual west is actual south). Short chancel with canted end and ambulatory, flanked by turrets. South chapel.
Aisles have two-light plate tracery windows between gabled buttresses, lancets to clerestory. West end has angle buttresses framing three two-light windows, entrance with small buttresses between. Gallery above, with arcaded balustrade and stepped three-light window; gable cross. Flanking porches under lean-to roofs arches of two orders to both sides and cinquefoil windows. West transepts have lancets and angle buttresses. East transepts have four-light windows. Lead fleche at east end of nave. Chancel has lancets flanked by narrower blind lancets, with wall shafts. South chapel has aisles and three-light east window.
Interior: stone. Four bay nave with arcades on round piers, corbelled wall shafts, gallery and quadripartite vault (no ridge rib). Porch at west end has three arches and gallery above. North west transept is baptistry with marble font. North west transept has octagonal organ loft on marble piers. North and south chapels to west of east transepts. Chancel apsed end, arcading with arches paired under relieving arch with roundel. Angels in spandrels, gallery and relief panels of Adoration of the bands, statues of angels over. Iron grilles to ambulatory. Low marble wall to chancel. South chapel has south aisle and north aisle formed by ambulatory. South transept has timber gallery. Good stained glass, including windows by Kempe. "The noblest Victorian church in Liverpool" (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SJ3758988493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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