Church of Our Lady Immaculate is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of Our Lady Immaculate
- WRENN ID
- tattered-granite-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Knowsley MP: Anneliese Midgley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Our Lady Immaculate, Vicarage Place, Prescot, L34 1LA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 464 927
- Coordinates
- 53.42847, -2.80794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Our Lady Immaculate is a Catholic church built between 1856 and 1857 by J. Hansom. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a seven-bay nave, shallow transepts, and a two-bay chancel. The nave is adorned with two-light windows that have plate tracery, positioned between deep weathered buttresses. The gabled south porch includes diagonal buttresses and a statue in a niche above the entrance. The west front features two-light windows on either side of a buttress that has canted inner angles, forming a stair turret, topped with gargoyles and a short spire with an iron cross. The south transept has diagonal buttresses and a four-light window with Geometrical tracery, while the north transept includes an extension for confessionals and a passage to the presbytery. The chancel has two two-light windows on the south side and a four-light window on the east side. Inside, the roof has panels painted in a 20th-century color scheme, and there is a west gallery supported by braced timber posts. The transepts feature stepped triple segmental-pointed arches on piers with foliate capitals. The chancel arch has continuous mouldings and a hood mould with angel stops, flanked by marble altars and reredoses. The chancel reredos includes gabled traceried panels, cresting, and a central gabled aedicule.
Local climate
Church of Our Lady Immaculate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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