Church Of St Joseph is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. A Victorian Church.
Church Of St Joseph
- WRENN ID
- dark-railing-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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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