Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church
WESLEY SOUTHBANK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTHBANK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379798
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY SOUTHBANK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTHBANK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379798
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEY SOUTHBANK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTHBANK 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:
- WESLEY SOUTHBANK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTHBANK 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 34313 16274
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW SOUTHBANK ROAD
664-1/1/204 (North West side)
20/02/98 Wesley Southbank Road Methodist
Church
II
Methodist church. 1888. Glazed red brick with sandstone
dressings, slate roof.
STYLE: Romanesque style.
PLAN: conventional east-west axis reversed. Nave with
octagonal tower at south-east corner embraced by porch on east
side and apse on south side, north and south transepts, short
chancel.
EXTERIOR: the gabled east facade of the nave, framed by
straight buttresses with saddleback coping, has tall
round-headed lancet windows divided 1:2:1 by pilaster strips.
Carved panels below the central pair of windows and an oculus
in the gable above them.
To the left is a gabled porch with a large round-headed open
arch to the front and a smaller one in each side, all these
linked by clustered shafts with carved capitals.
Rising behind the porch is a narrow octagonal tower which has
moulded ribs to the angles, a string course defining an upper
stage with a small round-headed window in each side, a
slightly-oversailing parapet, an octagonal belfry stage with
small mullioned 2-light openings below taller round-headed
belfry louvres, and a steep octagonal roof with a finial.
Attached to the south side of the tower is a semicircular apse
with narrow round-headed windows arranged as an arcade with
shafts at the angles, a simplified Lombard frieze, coped
parapet and semi-conical lead roof.
The side walls of the nave and the transepts have narrow
round-headed windows, those in the gable-walls of the
transepts paired.
INTERIOR: includes stained glass.
Listing NGR: SD3431316274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479206
- 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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