Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, ST CUTHBERTS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379762
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, ST CUTHBERTS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379762
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, ST CUTHBERTS 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:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, ST CUTHBERTS 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 36526 18638
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3618NE ST CUTHBERT'S ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/7/291 (East side)
21/09/51 Church of St Cuthbert
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCHTOWN
Church of St Cuthbert)
GV II
Parish church. 1730-9, altered c1860, restored and partly
rebuilt 1908-9 by Isaac Taylor. Coursed dressed sandstone and
ashlar, slate roof.
STYLE: Georgian.
PLAN: nave with west steeple off-set south, chancel added
1908-9.
EXTERIOR: the square 3-stage tower, with quoins, a plain band
to the first stage and a moulded band to the second, a moulded
cornice, pilastered parapet and octagonal spire with 3 moulded
bands, has a pilastered round-headed west doorway with imposts
and keystone (now blocked), a round-headed window to the
second stage with wooden Y-tracery and round-headed louvred
belfry windows with similar surrounds; on the south side of
the second stage a clock-face with shouldered surround
inscribed: 1739.
In the north angle of the tower is a lean-to office. The south
side of the nave has 4 plus 2 narrow bays (the latter formerly
the chancel), with diagonal buttresses terminating in
pinnacles, a gabled porch in the second bay (of 1909) and tall
round-headed windows in the other bays, all with C20
round-arched tracery, and the bottom of each blocked with C20
masonry.
The north side (rebuilt in early C20) has a large Venetian
window in the centre (relocated E window of former chancel).
INTERIOR: porch contains round-headed south doorway with
inscriptions to left and right of the keystone: James Rimer
Robert Ball Thomas Rimer Church Wardens and James Whitehead
Rector 1730; single-vessel nave contains very unusual wooden
aisle arcades with wide elliptical arches (of 1908-9), and a
shallow west gallery in the same style, with spiral newel
stairs; chancel contains fine carved wooden reredos by Richard
Prescott in Grinling Gibbons style, being part of 1704 reredos
from church of St Peter, Liverpool (demolished 1922), and
communion rail from the same source; at south-east end are
memorial tablets to Thomas Fleetwood (d.1717), and Roger
Hesketh (d.1791) by Nollekens; and a hatchment.
Principal element of group in centre of the village.
Listing NGR: SD3652618638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479169
- 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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