CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST PAUL

CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST PAUL, SCARISBRICK NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379775
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST PAUL, SCARISBRICK NEW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379775
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST PAUL, SCARISBRICK NEW ROAD

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 PHILIP AND ST PAUL, SCARISBRICK NEW 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 34386 16448

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SD31NW SCARISBRICK NEW ROAD 664-1/1/180 (North side) 20/02/98 Church of St Philip and St Paul

GV II

Church. 1884-7, by RF Tolson. Rock-faced yellow sandstone, slate roofs. STYLE: C13 PLAN: nave with south-west porch-tower, north and south aisles, south baptistery, coupled north and south transepts, south vestry, chancel. EXTERIOR: the 4-stage tower, with angle buttresses (foundation stone dated 1884 between those to left), has a 2-centred arched south doorway moulded in 3 orders, with an A-shaped coping above; a heavy moulded band to the second stage, which has lancet arcading with shafts; a pilaster strip to the third stage flanked by a pair of narrow slots; another heavy moulded band to the belfry stage, which has pairs of deeply-moulded lancet windows with stone louvres and gablets; balustraded parapet with pyramidal corner pinnacles. The nave has a tripartite west window of 1:3:1 lights, with Geometric tracery to the centre. 5-bay clerestory with pilaster strips and pairs of 2-light windows with Y-tracery. The low buttressed aisles have pairs of cusped one-light windows; the coupled gables of the transepts have 4-light windows with Geometric tracery. In the west angle with the south transept (the third bay of the south aisle) is a gabled baptistery which has a window of 3 arched lights in each wall; in the east angle is a vestry parallel with the chancel. The tall chancel has a 5-light east window with Geometric tracery. INTERIOR: 5-bay aisle arcades of cylindrical columns with moulded annular caps carrying 2-centred arches with ovolo moulding; wrought-iron circular lamps suspended between bays; 2-centred vaulted ceiling with lateral beams supporting posts to the ridge; marble and alabaster pulpit; early C20 oak choir stalls by GC Packer, with gableted and traceried canopies, and similar organ case on north side. Baptistery with Romanesque-style colonnading, communication with chapel in south transept. Various commemorative stained glass windows.

Listing NGR: SD3438616448

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Legacy System number:: 479183
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.