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: CROSBY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
List entry Number: 1257394
Location
CROSBY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MERSEY ROAD
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National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 26-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment: 20-Dec-1996
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 463931
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List entry Description
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
CROSBY
SJ39NW MERSEY ROAD
778-1/3/103 (North side)
26/03/73 Crosby United Reformed Church
(Formerly Listed as:
MERSEY ROAD
Congregational Church)
GV II
Congregational church, now United Reformed church. 1897-8
(dated 1897 at east end); by Douglas and Fordham. Snecked red
sandstone, graduated green slate roofs.
STYLE: Gothic.
PLAN: nave with fleche, low north and south aisles, south-east
porch, large north and south transepts, west chancel,
south-west choir vestry (with organ-house above).
EXTERIOR: the 4-bay nave has angle-buttresses terminating in
octagonal turrets, large side buttresses pierced by the
aisles, 2-centred arched 3-light clerestory windows with
stepped arched lights, a large 2-centred arched 3-light east
window with traceried lights, and a slated fleche with open
arcading at the foot; the aisles have a pair of small
2-centred arched windows in each bay. The east bay on the
south side has a large gabled porch with coupled arched
doorways set in a 2-centred arch with 4 orders of moulding.
The transepts have large 2-centred arched 4-light windows with
moulded surrounds and geometrical tracery. The 2-storey choir
vestry has a polygonal turret attached to its south side. The
chancel has a 5-light window with geometrical plate tracery,
flanked by cusped blind windows.
Large congregational hall (probably formerly school) linked to
north side of church by single-storey range along east end: in
similar style, and with 2 fleche ventilators on the roof.
INTERIOR: double-chamfered 2-centred arched aisle arcades on
short piers, forming 3 wide bays and 2 narrow bays at the east
end; large transept arches in the same style; larger chancel
arch with 2 orders of moulding; impressive timber roof of
unusual construction, with hammerbeams supported by raked
straight braces, arch-braced collar trusses carrying 2 sets of
wind-braced purlins, and a flat boarded ceiling over the upper
set.
Listing NGR: SJ3146399478
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National Grid Reference: SJ 31463 99478
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