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Church of St Mary

A Grade II Listed Building in Castlefields, Halton

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3321 / 53°19'55"N

Longitude: -2.6963 / 2°41'46"W

OS Eastings: 353729

OS Northings: 381908

OS Grid: SJ537819

Mapcode National: GBR 9YMX.28

Mapcode Global: WH87R.KH9Y

Plus Code: 9C5V88J3+RG

Entry Name: Church of St Mary

Listing Date: 23 April 1970

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1330344

English Heritage Legacy ID: 55979

ID on this website: 101330344

Location: The Brow, Halton, Cheshire, WA7

County: Halton

Electoral Ward/Division: Castlefields

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Runcorn

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Halton St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

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Description


SJ 58 SW HALTON CASTLE ROAD
(West Side)

5/26 Church of St.Mary

23.4.70 II

Parish Church 1851 by Sir G.G.Scott. Red sandstone with slate roof.
Lofty 4 bay nave with side aisle and chancel roof at lower level.
Bell-turret to nave east gable. Squared snecked rubble walls with
angle buttresses to chancel and corner buttresses to nave. Main
Gothic entrance in south aisle. Windows curvilinear to chancel and
nave, trefoil to clerestorey have drip moulds with stops carved as
faces. All have stained glass. The octagonal bell-turret has trefoil
openings surmounted by gablets and there are gablet kneelers to the
gables.
Interior Gothic aisle arcades supported on clusters of four shafts.
Organ chamber and Memorial Chapel flank the chancel north and south.
Good alabaster reredos and oak chapel screens. Boarded waggon roof to _
chancel and similar roof with exposed rafters to nave, trusses carried
on corbels carved as faces. Oak benches with simple poppyheads.


Listing NGR: SJ5372981908

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