Church Of Our Lady

LYDIATE SOUTHPORT ROAD SD 30 NE (east side) 4/92 Church of Our Lady G.V. II Catholic church. 1854-5. By J.J. Scoles. Reredos erected in 1878. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, north west tower, south porch and vestry, and chancel. 4-bay aisles have 2-light windows with early Perpendicular tracery between weathered buttresses; end diagonal buttresses. South porch is gabled, entrance with continuous mouldings and niche above. West end on moulded plinth. West window of 2 lights with quatrefoil above. Tower has 3 stages, north door; 2nd stage has cusped lancets, top stage recessed, with 2-light louvred bell openings, cornice, embattled parapet and crocketed pinnacles. Chancel has moulded plinth, 3-light reticulated east window between diagonal buttresses; quatrefoil above. To north, 2 windows of 2 lights. To south, vestry with gable-end stacks and canted projection in western angle. Interior has arcades on octagonal piers. Roof has scissor-brace trussess. Chancel arch with statues to either side. Alabaster chancel rail; pulpit at north end incoporates C15 figure of a bishop. Elaborate reredos with relief scenes and canopied figures, altar moved forward. Flanking cusped ogee-arched recesses. Piscina with double ogee arch. North aisle altar has quatrefoil opening revealing sculptured entombment, and reredos. West gallery and baptistry to south with C15 alabaster reliefs of life of St. Katherine and visitation taken from St. Katherine's chapel (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD3648005204