Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, STANDISHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384525
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, STANDISHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384525
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, STANDISHGATE
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 MARY, STANDISHGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58513 06150
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE STANDISHGATE
24-1/2/75 (East side)
24/10/51 Church of St Mary
II*
Roman Catholic church. 1818; altered. Sandstone ashlar, with
sides and rear of coursed squared sandstone; slate roof.
Gothick style with Perpendicular features to the facade. PLAN:
rectangular plan set back from, and at right-angles to street,
with integral narthex, nave with north and south aisles, short
chancel.
EXTERIOR: a 2-storey 5-bay symmetrical facade, the centre
gabled and the outer bays (ends of aisles) lower; with
pilaster-buttresses modulated to tall diagonal crocketed
pinnacles and an embattled parapet with a bellcote at the apex
of the gable. The wide centre bay has a large 2-centred arched
5-light transomed window with surround chamfered in 3 orders,
ogee-headed lights on both levels, dense geometric
Perpendicular tracery in the head, and a hood-mould. The
flanking bays each have a Tudor-arched doorway with
double-chamfered surround, hollow spandrels and a hood-mould,
and a 2-centred arched 2-light window above. All these windows
have geometrical small-paned stained glass. Lower outer bays
have diagonal buttresses. The 5-bay side walls have tall
2-centred arched 3-light transomed windows with flush transoms
and mullions. The chancel has a 5-light window with eclectic
tracery.
INTERIOR: 5-bay aisle arcades of slender clustered wooden
columns and moulded 2-centred arches; galleries to 3 sides,
with Gothick traceried front panelling; closed trusses to a
shallow-pitched ceiling with moulded ribs and large foliated
bosses; glazed screen below west gallery, with Gothick tracery
and leaded glazing; curved stone staircases to gallery in both
front corners.
(Little B: Catholic Churches since 1623: London: 1966-; Watkin
D: The Buildings of Britain: Regency: London: 1982-).
Listing NGR: SD5851306150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484959
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watkin, D, The Buildings of Britain, Regency, (1982)
Little, B, Catholic Churches since 1623, (1966)
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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