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Church of St Nicholas

A Grade II Listed Building in Sutton, St. Helens

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4283 / 53°25'41"N

Longitude: -2.7211 / 2°43'15"W

OS Eastings: 352185

OS Northings: 392631

OS Grid: SJ521926

Mapcode National: GBR 9XFS.PS

Mapcode Global: WH87C.53J4

Plus Code: 9C5VC7HH+8H

Entry Name: Church of St Nicholas

Listing Date: 23 August 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1199239

English Heritage Legacy ID: 216375

Also known as: St Nicholas' Church, Sutton, Merseyside

ID on this website: 101199239

Location: St Nicholas' Church, Marshall's Cross, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA9

County: St. Helens

Electoral Ward/Division: Sutton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: St Helens

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Sutton St Nicholas

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

Description


SJ 59 SW ST. HELENS NEW STREET (west side)

8/84 Church of - Saint Nicholas

G.V. II

Church. 1848-9. Sharpe and Paley, tower of 1897. Rubble walling, with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 5-bay nave with aisles under lean-to roof; west tower; chancel with south organ loft. Aisles have cornice with beasts and parapet; 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery. Gabled south porch with pointed entrance of one order. Clerestory has spherical triangle windows. Tower has diagonal buttresses; west window of 3 lights with transom; 2-light louvred bell openings; embattled parapet; low stair turret. 3-bay chancel has gabled setback buttresses and foliated cornice and parapet. Small north vestry. 2 windows of 2 lights to north and south and 3-light east window. Organ loft has gable and 2-light window above buttress; east window in angle, of 2 lights under half relieving arch. Interior: high narrow nave with arcades on round piers. Collar-truss roof on wall shafts on angel corbels. Chancel arch on corbelled wall shafts with foliated corbels and capitals. Octagonal font with clustered shafts. Pulpit corbelled from wall with pointed entrance and canted stair turret in north aisle. Chancel has arch-braced collar roof. North and south stained glass windows of 1850's and 1890's. East window dated 1879 probably by Holiday and Powell; flanking commandment panels with nodding ogee heads.

Listing NGR: SJ5218592631

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