Roman Catholic Church of Saint Francis Xavier
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER, SALISBURY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361668
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Francis Xavier
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER, SALISBURY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361668
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Francis Xavier
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER, SALISBURY STREET
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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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER, SALISBURY STREET
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 35636 91165
Details
SJ 3591 SALISBURY STREET L3
23/1087 Roman Catholic Church of Saint 28.6.52 Francis Xavier
G.V. II*
Catholic church. 1845-9. J. J. Scoles, the Lady Chapel added 1888 by E. Kirby. Stone with slate roof. Geometrical. Name with aisles under separate roofs, short chancel flanked by chapels with Lady chapel to 'SE' (ritual 'W' is actual N). Tower to south west has spire. Aisles have 2-light windows, north aisle has 8 to north , one to west. Nave has 4-light west windows and wheel window above, no clerestory. Tower has set-back buttresses and pointed arched entrances to south. 3-light bell openings and recessed spire behind altered parapet has lucarnes and diapered bands; 4 pinnacles at the angles of tower. Chancel of one bay has canted end with 2-light windows. Lady chapel is of 2 bays with canted corner bays. Buttresses end in pinnacles, 2 light windows; 3-light west window. Interior: Nave has 7-bay arcades on slender marble columns (now painted). Wagon roof with iron ties. Chancel arch. North aisle has trefoil heads to confessional entries. High altar and reredos by S. J. Nicholl of white marble, with arcading and pinnacles. Altar rails of coloured marble. Rood under chancel arch. Caen stone pulpit on south side of nave. Chapels have altars and rerdoses similar to High altar. Elaborate stone font at west end of nave. Lady chapel has apsidal ends to west and east, that to east forming ambulatory with arcade on marble columns. Marble wall snafts and ribbed plaster vault. Tabernacle doors said to be by Conrad Dressler. An important church in the alternative tradition to that of A. W. Pugin, and a good, largely unaltered example of Scoles' work. H. R. Hitchcock, Early Victorian Architecture, 1954, p.90.
Listing NGR: SJ3563691165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hitchcock, HR, Early Victorian Architecture in Britain, (1954), 90
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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