Description

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SJ 3993
17/78

WEST DERBY,
Meadow Lane,
Church of Saint Mary

(Formerly listed as: ALMONDS GREEN (east side) L12, Church of Saint Mary)

12.07.66

G.V.

II*

Church. 1853-56. Sir George Gilbert Scott. Stone with slate
roofs. 5-bay nave with aisles under lean-to roofs and north
and south porches. Transepts and crossing tower. 3-bay
chancel and north and south chapels; vestry on south side.
Geometrical style. West entrance of 2 orders with window
above of 4 lights, aisle west windows of 2 lights. Aisles
have cornice and parapet, windows of 3 lights and stone
rainwater heads in the form of beasts; offset buttresses.
Clerestory has 2-light windows. Porch, entrance of 2
orders, sides have quatrefoil and trefoil openings (north
porch blocked, 1984). North transept has 4-light north
window, spherical triangle windows to east and west; canted
stair turret with pinnacle to west. Tower of 2 stages has
octagonal angle turrets with crocketed pinnacles. Lower
stage has 5-bay blind arcade with cusped arches with frieze
of quatrefoils and embattled parapet over. Upper stage has
paired 2-light bell openings with canopied niche above,
Lombard frieze and pierced parapet. Chancel has apsidal
end, 2-light windows and Lombard frieze. Chapels have 3-
light east window and 2-light side windows. North Chapel
windows blocked (1984). Vestry has windows of 2 and 3
cusped lights an parapet. South transept, three 2-light
windows with chamfered buttresses below and rose above.

INTERIOR has arcades with round columns, wall shafts and
scissor-braced roofs. Crossing with clustered shafts and
triforium with 2-light traceried openings; flat ceiling over.
Chancel has 2-bay arcade on quatrefoil piers to south
chapel, organ loft to north. Octagonal font has traceried
canopy. Pulpit, choir stalls, chancel panelling and screen
and reredos at south chapel by J. O. Scott, 1906. Stained
glass mostly by Hardman. Of particular note is the fine
carving of the arcade capitals. One of Sir Gilbert Scott's
better works, with a particularly good interior. (Sundial
from previous church set on south wall and dated 1793.)

Listing NGR: SJ3972393346

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool at Wikipedia
• St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool official website
• Wikidata Q7594452

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5