Description

The following building shall be added:

SJ 39 SE MOUNT VERNON STREET

4/2000 Church of the Sacred
Heart

- II

Roman Catholic church. 1886; designed by the leading Roman Catholic church
practice, Goldie, Child & Goldie. Coursed rubble; Welsh slate roof. Plan:
nave (7 bays), chancel (2 bays), both with N and S aisles; W narthex and SW
transept (probably the baptistery); polygonal apsidal E end (sanctuary). W end
stands high above steps with retaining walls, the gatepiers gabled finials and
traceried panels and iron railings (all included in this listing). W front:
7-light W window: polygonal turret (to SW) with open traceried belfry openings
and spire: 4-bay northex with 2 2-light windows flanked by side doors. 3 light
W window to N aisle. The 2 bay W elevation of the SW transept forms an integral
part of the W end composition with 2 plate-tracery windows with parapet.
3-light clerestory windows with alternating form of Decorated tracery pattern;
3-light windows to S aisle only (the N side originally stood adjacent to now
demolished buildings and has no windows. 2-light windows to sanctuary, set high
over plain walling with tall gabled buttresses at the angles. Interior: nave
and chancel arcades with octagonal piers and deeply moulded arches of equi-
lateral section. Roof principals supported on tall wall shaft and stone
corbels. Sanctuary furnishings; an important group designed by Pugin & Pugin
(1891): marble (or polished alabaster) panelled reredos of 2 tiers, blank
traceried square-headed bays below, those above with Biblical scenes, the prin-
cipal divisions with niches containing statues by Boulton of Cheltenham (with
elaborate canopies and plinths of clustered shafts); richly carved pinnacles and
brattishing. Contemporary altar with carved fronted panels and gabled
rere-altar with attendant angels. Full set of glass. Painted boarded ceiling.

Listing NGR: SJ3614890831

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sacred Heart Church, Liverpool at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15274242

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)