Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, WATERLOO STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384569
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, WATERLOO STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384569
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, WATERLOO 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 ANDREW, WATERLOO 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 57071 06438
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE WATERLOO STREET
24-1/2/119 (North West side)
28/10/97 Church of St Andrew
II
Church. 1882. By FW Hunt of London. Common brick in English
bond, slate roofs. Early English style.
PLAN: nave and chancel in one tall vessel, with north-west
bell-turret, north and south aisles with porches at west ends,
chapel at east end of north aisle, vestry and organ house near
east end of south aisle.
EXTERIOR: the aisles are buttressed but windowless; the gabled
porches each have coupled square-headed doorways in a blank
arch with patterned brick tympanum, and brick gable copings
with kneelers. The nave has a brick corbel table, and short
2-centred arched clerestory windows in 3 pairs plus a single
window at the east end, all with 2 short arched lights and a
roundel, and geometric leaded stained glass; the south side
has a tall gabled vestry-cum-organ-house with an outshut to
the east, stepped gable coping, a segmental-headed doorway,
small lancet windows and 2 circular windows; the west gable
wall has 2 tall 2-light lancet windows with simple arched
tracery, the east gable wall has 3 similar windows, each has
an oculus in the gable, the north-west corner has a square
turret carrying a wooden-framed belfry which has a tall
pyramidal cap with simple lucarnes and a weather vane finial
and the others have drum pinnacles.
INTERIOR: 3-bay aisle arcades of wide 2-centred brick arches
carried on short cylindrical columns with crocketed caps; roof
of slender queen-strut trusses carried right through to
chancel, which is divided from nave only by 3 steps up and a
good carved wooden screen; chancel with piscina and sedilia,
carved choir stalls, wooden altar with carved panels.
Listing NGR: SD5707106438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485004
- 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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