CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED)

CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), LORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379676
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED)
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), LORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379676
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED)
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), LORD STREET

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 ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), LORD STREET

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 33852 17468

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SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/116 (East side) 15/11/72 CHURCH OF ST GEORGE United Reformed Church (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET/ST GEORGE'S PLACE St George's Presbyterian Church)

GV II

Presbyterian church, now United Reformed church. 1873-4; altered 1931 by Irving & Mosscrip. Coursed rock-faced sandstone rubble, slate roof. EXTERIOR: the 3-stage tower, with angle-buttresses, corner pinnacles and a tall broached spire, has a 2-centred arched west doorway in a shallow steeply-gabled porch set between the buttresses, with elaborate enrichment including 3 orders of moulding with colonnettes, a multi-foil in the gable and crocketed coping with a finial; a triple niche of sharply pointed crocketed trefoils in the centre of the second stage; pairs of 2-light louvred belfry windows with hoodmoulds; an arcaded frieze and oversailing pierced parapet; and lucarnes at 2 levels of the spire. The flanking ends of the nave have moulded 2-centred arched doorways and 2-centred arched 2-light windows above; and its 5-bay side walls have buttresses and large 2-centred arched 3-light windows with alternating forms of plate tracery. INTERIOR: simple single vessel, with wooden and glazed arcaded screen at west end, some panelling and furnishing at east end in similar style, and canted ceiling with exposed beams.

Listing NGR: SD3385217468

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Legacy System number:: 479076
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.