Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, VICTORIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384540
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, VICTORIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384540
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, VICTORIA STREET
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 MARK, VICTORIA STREET
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 56647 04722
Details
WIGAN
SD50SE VICTORIA STREET, Newtown
24-1/5/132 Church of St Mark
11/07/83
II
Church. 1891-2. By Heaton and Ralph of Wigan. Coursed
sandstone rubble, slate roofs. Early English style, with some
Arts-and-Crafts motifs.
PLAN: nave with north and south aisles, south porch, south
transept, south-east tower, chancel with north vestry.
EXTERIOR: the 4-bay nave has pilasters, pairs of cusped
lancets to the clerestory, and a large 5-light west window
with cusped lights and multifoil tracery. The low lean-to
aisles have mullioned windows of 2 and 3 round-headed lights;
the south aisle has a gabled porch to the 1st bay with a
moulded segmental-pointed arched doorway and ridged gable
coping with an apex cross, and a short transept to the 4th bay
with 2 cusped lancets and a rose window with circular trefoil
tracery. The squat 3-stage tower has a polygonal south-east
stair-turret up to the 2nd stage, one-light cusped windows to
the 1st and 2nd stages, pairs of cusped lancet belfry windows
and an embattled parapet. The 2-bay chancel has 2-centred
arched 2-light windows in the south side and a large 2-centred
arched 5-light east window with tracery.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD5664704722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484975
- 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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