Church of St Joseph
CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, YORK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379807
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, YORK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379807
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, YORK 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 JOSEPH, YORK 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 32961 15983
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW YORK ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/1/21 (West side)
Church of St Joseph
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1865-7, slightly altered. By Edward Welby Pugin. Red brick in English garden wall bond with blue brick bands, sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof with west bellcote.
STYLE: early English.
PLAN: nave with chancel, south aisle and west narthex.
EXTERIOR: the 6-bay nave has buttresses and one narrow lancet
in each bay. The west gable has buttresses projected at ground
floor level to form the sides of a lean-to narthex which has a
2-centred arched west doorway approached by 3 steps and
flanked by small rectangular windows, the doorway with
elaborately-moulded surround, a hoodmould and a
steeply-pitched gable breaking the parapet, and the windows
deeply-recessed with sloped sills and hoodmoulds.
Large wheel-window above the narthex, and an elaborate
bellcote of 2 very steeply-pitched stages surmounted by a
finial.
The chancel has a traceried circular east window, 3 lancets
and a chequered frieze.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with associated presbytery (qv) on south side.
Listing NGR: SD3296115983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479215
- 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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