List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
List entry Number: 1226650
Location
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Warrington | Unitary Authority | Lymm |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 24-Jan-1950
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 423762
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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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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National Grid Reference: SJ 68265 86810
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