Church Of All Saints

CHURCH LAWTON C.P. (Off) LIVERPOOL ROAD SJ 85 NW WEST

7/24 Church of All Saints 14/2/1967 - II*

Church. Romanesque door surround of C11 or C12. Perpendicular tower of before 1555 and neo-classical nave of 1803. Red and yellow sandstone ashlar to tower and porch. Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. Western tower, nave and south-western porch. Tower: western face: diagonal buttresses to the corners. Deeply chamfered doorway with pointed arch, hood mould and label stops. Three-light window above probably of C19 date with three pointed lights. Staircase lancets to right of this. Two-light louvred belfry opening above with Y-tracery, hood-mould and figurehead label stops, that at right being a grotesque head. Battlemented parapet with piers to the corners. The north face of the tower has a C20 service lean-to attached to its lower stage and a string course between the stages. Similar belfry to that on the western front. The southern face has the initials I B divided by a chalice in relief at right above the string course and a circular clockface to the centre below the belfry opening. Nave: the south face is of 4 bays of brick with a deep stone plinth with, to the left hand side, a porch built as a war memorial in 1926 of ashlar. This is gabled with a pointed, chamfered arch. Within and to either wall are benches above which are tablets in pointed niches inscribed with the names of the dead. The door to the church has a Romanesque surround, apparently re-positioned here. To either side are pilarettes with a hollow chamfer to their centres. At the level of the capitals is a band of leaf and dart moulding and to the arch and intrados are chevron patterns. To right of the porch are two round-arched windows and to the far right a doorway with stone surround and lunette window above. The north face is similar with 2 round-headed windows at left and two windows at right with a blocked doorway to right of centre. The western end has a Venetian window and hipped roof and a blocked doorway at right. Interior: Western gallery with front of raised and fielded panels supported on iron columns of quatrefoil section.

Listing NGR: SJ8216455759

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.