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Latitude: 53.4516 / 53°27'5"N
Longitude: -2.7349 / 2°44'5"W
OS Eastings: 351289
OS Northings: 395238
OS Grid: SJ512952
Mapcode National: GBR 9XBJ.PD
Mapcode Global: WH874.YHTR
Plus Code: 9C5VF728+M2
Entry Name: Church of St Helen
Listing Date: 11 September 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1199141
English Heritage Legacy ID: 216360
ID on this website: 101199141
Location: St Helens, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10
County: St. Helens
Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: St Helens
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: St Helens St Helen
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SJ 59 NW
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ST. HELENS
CHURCH STREET (south side)
Church of St Helen
11.9.51
II
Church. 1916-26. W.D Caröe. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Single vessel nave and chancel, aisles under lean-to roofs, north east tower and chapel, south vestry.
West end has narthex and flanking turrets; four pointed entrances in segmental headed architraves, quatrefoil panelling above. Flying buttresses support nave, which has five-light window with Perpendicular tracery. Low passages with windows of three ogee-headed lights connect with square embattled turrets with two-light windows. Aisles have canted buttresses and three-light Perpendicular windows, clerestory also has three-light windows. Chancel has slightly canted east end with two-, three-, two-light windows with transoms.
Tower has diagonal buttresses and smaller side buttresses. Segmental arches support gallery below paired two-light straight-headed bell openings. Plain parapet and square south east stair turret. North face has four-light window cut by buttress, base of tower forms west bay of chapel, east bay has four-light east window. To west of tower, a gabled porch and transept.
Interior: five bay arcades with four-centred arches has taller blind arcades enclosing clerestory windows. Aisles have elliptical-arched arcades to passages. West end has arches to narthex passages and open octofoils to turrets.
Octagonal font with Classical font cover. Chancel has good woodwork: choir stalls, reredos and parclose screens designed by Caröe. Organ loft in tower and two bay minstrels' gallery to south.
The church shows imaginative use of brick work; the tower is an important local landmark.
Listing NGR: SJ5128995238
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