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Latitude: 53.6361 / 53°38'9"N
Longitude: -3.0153 / 3°0'55"W
OS Eastings: 332961
OS Northings: 415983
OS Grid: SD329159
Mapcode National: GBR 7VCD.Z9
Mapcode Global: WH861.NVBX
Plus Code: 9C5RJXPM+CV
Entry Name: Church of St Joseph
Listing Date: 29 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379807
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479215
ID on this website: 101379807
Location: St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Birkdale, Sefton, Merseyside, PR8
County: Sefton
Electoral Ward/Division: Duke's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southport
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Birkdale St James
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW YORK ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/1/21 (West side)
Church of St Joseph
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1865-7, slightly altered. By Edward Welby
Pugin. Red brick in English garden wall bond with blue brick bands,
sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof with west
bellcote.
STYLE: early English.
PLAN: nave with chancel, south aisle and west narthex.
EXTERIOR: the 6-bay nave has buttresses and one narrow lancet
in each bay. The west gable has buttresses projected at ground
floor level to form the sides of a lean-to narthex which has a
2-centred arched west doorway approached by 3 steps and
flanked by small rectangular windows, the doorway with
elaborately-moulded surround, a hoodmould and a
steeply-pitched gable breaking the parapet, and the windows
deeply-recessed with sloped sills and hoodmoulds.
Large wheel-window above the narthex, and an elaborate
bellcote of 2 very steeply-pitched stages surmounted by a
finial.
The chancel has a traceried circular east window, 3 lancets
and a chequered frieze.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with associated presbytery (qv) on south side.
Listing NGR: SD3296115983
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