CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226650
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226650
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Warrington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lymm
National Grid Reference:: SJ 68265 86810

Details

SJ 68 NE LYMM C.P. CHURCH LANE (south side)

2/41 Church of St.Mary the Virgin

24/1/1950 II

Church 1850-2 by John Dobson, west tower rebuilt 1888-90 by J.S.Crowther. Buff sandstone (coursed in tower, tooled squared rubble elsewhere). Aisled nave of 5 bays, north porch, transepts, chancel, vestry, 3-stage battlemented west tower with diagonal buttresses. Perpendicular west window and paired bell-openings with panel tracery. 3-light Perpendicular aisle windows under camber-arches; triple trefoil-headed lancets to clerestory; geometrical windows and diagonal buttresses to transepts; geometrical east windows, Perpendicular window to vestry/sacristy. Interior: Nave arcades have octagonal piers; arch-braced trusses to roof. Collar-beam trusses to transepts, panelled roof to chancel. Galleries in transepts. Stained glass west window 1853, east window 1865 (in memory of Rector), 3 south aisle windows by Wailes, 1 north aisle window by Kempe. Octagonal stone font, probably mid C17; plain panelled oak pulpit 1623. Supposed Roman altar (in preserved medieval Decorated niche in south aisle), but with IW (John Warburton?) carved on head and horseshoe motif on each side of stone. Monuments: W.Domville 1686; John Leigh 1806 and wife 1819; tablets to members of Fox family early C19. Hatchments in tower.

Listing NGR: SJ6826586810

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Legacy System number:: 423762
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.