Scarisbrick Mausoleum to South of Church of St John
SCARISBRICK MAUSOLEUM TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, RUFFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379756
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Scarisbrick Mausoleum to South of Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- SCARISBRICK MAUSOLEUM TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, RUFFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379756
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Scarisbrick Mausoleum to South of Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCARISBRICK MAUSOLEUM TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, RUFFORD 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:
- SCARISBRICK MAUSOLEUM TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, RUFFORD 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 37478 20057
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3720SW RUFFORD ROAD, Crossens
664-1/13/301 (East side)
10/12/87 Scarisbrick Mausoleum to south of
Church of St John
GV II
Mausoleum. c1900, by EW Johnson for the Scarisbrick family of
Scarisbrick Hall. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. STYLE:
Neo-Norman.
PLAN: cruciform, with transepts and apsidal east end, the
transepts and apse being lower than the nave.
EXTERIOR: 4 round-headed windows in the north and south walls
of the nave, 2 in the west wall of each transept, and a
further 2 in the apse, under coped gables. Circular windows in
the end wall of each transept.
The west end has a round-headed arched west doorway moulded in
2 orders, with chevron mouldings and scalloped capitals, and
double doors protected by wrought-iron gates with Art Nouveau
motifs; the windows are decorated like the doorway, some with
billet mouldings.
A very ornate corbel table runs along the north and south
walls of the nave and round the apse, each corbel decorated
with an individual carving, some abstract and others
semi-naturalistic.
The 4 gables have carved apex crosses, and the roof has 2
small louvred dormers.
INTERIOR is complete in the same style, with arches to
transepts and chancel, and several wall niches similar to
those of the exterior.
Listing NGR: SD3747820057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479163
- 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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