Lord Street West United Church
Lord Street West United Church, Lord Street West
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379682
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lord Street West United Church
- Statutory Address:
- Lord Street West United Church, Lord Street West
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379682
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lord Street West United Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lord Street West United Church, Lord Street West
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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:
- Lord Street West United Church, Lord Street West
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 33165 16812
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/04/2018
SD 31 NW
664-1/1/121
SOUTHPORT
LORD STREET WEST (south east side),
Lord Street West United Church
(Formerly listed as Lord Street West United Reformed Church)
II
Formerly known as: Duke Street Congregational Church DUKE STREET.
Congregational church, now United Reformed church.1861-62, gutted by fire 1964 and subsequently restored. By Walker of Manchester. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof with fishscale bands of green slate.
STYLE: Decorated Gothic Revival.
PLAN: nave with north-west tower (spire removed), south aisle, south west vestry, chancel.
EXTERIOR: six bay nave with buttresses, plinth and ashlar parapet with ridged coping; two-centred arched three-light windows with differing tracery and hoodmoulds with figured stops; and at the west end a two-centred arched west doorway with moulded surround and hoodmould with figured stops, and a large segmental-pointed five-light window with Decorated tracery.
Tower with short angle buttresses, two-centred arched west doorway (like that of the nave), cusped lancets to the second stage, and two-centred arched two-light belfry windows with moulded surrounds, shafts and stone louvres, rising into the broached base of the former spire.
Church hall attached to south east end (1965, by David Jones of Ormerod & Partners of Liverpool).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD3316516812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479082
- 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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