Description

CROSBY

SJ39NW CROSBY ROAD NORTH
778-1/3/29 (East side)
26/03/73 Church of St Faith

II

Parish church. 1900, by Grayson and Ould; built at the expense
of Douglas Horsfall (stockbroker). Red brick with pink
sandstone dressings, green slate roofs.
STYLE: Free Gothic.
PLAN: large nave with low north and south aisles, north and
south porches, large north and south transepts, the latter
with a slender octagonal south-east belfry tower, and a
full-height chancel.
EXTERIOR: sandstone bands and string courses carried round.
The west end of the nave has emphatic angle-buttresses and a
large 2-centred arched west window with deep moulded reveal
and elaborate tracery. Its 6-bay side walls are distinguished
by flying buttresses spanning the aisles: the aisles have two
small 1-light windows in each bay except the first, which have
prominent square cross-gabled porches with diagonal
buttresses, large moulded arches in two sides and gables
enriched with bands and raised strips; and the nave has large
2-centred arched clerestory windows (2 lights in the 1st bay
and 3 lights in the others), with differing tracery and
run-out hoodmoulds. The gables of the transepts have
angle-buttresses and large traceried 4-light windows. The
tower has a base storey with weathered coping, small
square-headed staircase windows on 3 levels above, and a tall
belfry stage of sandstone with traceried 1-light windows, a
banded brick parapet and a copper-clad spirelet. The chancel
has a very large 5-light east window with elaborate tracery.
INTERIOR: brick, with pale pink sandstone dressings; wide
6-bay nave with arch-braced hammerbeam roof, narrow
passage-aisles with sandstone arcades; very large chancel arch
with Perpendicular blind arcading; good Perpendicular-style
screen (1920s memorial to Horsfall's son, killed in Great
War).

Listing NGR: SJ3222498746

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Faith, Waterloo official website
• Wikidata Q26548993

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  For the Record