Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, LEYLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379601
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, LEYLAND ROAD
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- Date:
- 2006-02-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/13899/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379601
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, LEYLAND ROAD
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:
- METHODIST CHURCH, LEYLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 34913 17607
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW LEYLAND ROAD
664-1/1/54 (East side)
Methodist Church
GV II
Methodist church. 1878-80. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate
roofs. Early English style. Nave with wide north and south
transepts, short chancel, south-west porch-steeple and
north-west porch.
EXTERIOR: tall nave of 5 bays in all, of which 2 at the east
end are covered by the transepts while the westernmost is
stepped in, with the steeple in the south angle and the porch
in the north angle. The gabled west front has string courses
on 3 levels and a square corner pilaster to the left
terminating in a small turret with pyramidal roof. Tall
tripartite west window of 3 lancet lights with moulded
mullions and surround, each light divided by a slender mullion
into 2 minor lancet lights.
Projecting from the angle to the left is a steeply-gabled
porch which has a 2-centred arched doorway chamfered in 2
orders, a weathered band surmounted by a band of pierced
trefoils and a set-back gable with an oculus and raised coping
with a finial.
To the right the steeple has a similar doorway and weathered
band, a tall set-back upper stage with angle buttresses, a
2-light window to the second stage, a very tall belfry stage
which has square corner pinnacles flanking traceried and
louvred 2-light lancets under steeply-pitched gablets, and an
octagonal spire rising to a height of 150 feet; and on its
south side is a gabled projection with a 2-light window
flanked by buttresses.
The nave is buttressed and has 2 large 2-centred arched
3-light windows. Each transept embraces on its west side a
square turret rising above eaves level, with a lancet in each
exposed side and a pyramidal roof, and a lean-to porch in the
angle with the turret, with a 2-centred arched doorway and a
2-light window above this; a buttressed gable wall with 3
lancets at ground floor and a large 2-centred arched window of
4 lancet lights above.
The chancel has a plate-traceried rose window.
INTERIOR: with arch-braced wooden roof; galleries at the west
end and in both transepts; chancel with mosaic floor and fine
9-panelled painted reredos in which panels depicting fig,
wheat, vine and olive alternate with Commandments and Lord's
Prayer, under a coved arcaded canopy.
Listing NGR: SD3491317607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478988
- 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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