Scarisbrick Mausoleum To South Of Church Of St John

SOUTHPORT

SD3720SW RUFFORD ROAD, Crossens 664-1/13/301 (East side) 10/12/87 Scarisbrick Mausoleum to south of Church of St John

GV II

Mausoleum. c1900, by EW Johnson for the Scarisbrick family of Scarisbrick Hall. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. STYLE: Neo-Norman. PLAN: cruciform, with transepts and apsidal east end, the transepts and apse being lower than the nave. EXTERIOR: 4 round-headed windows in the north and south walls of the nave, 2 in the west wall of each transept, and a further 2 in the apse, under coped gables. Circular windows in the end wall of each transept. The west end has a round-headed arched west doorway moulded in 2 orders, with chevron mouldings and scalloped capitals, and double doors protected by wrought-iron gates with Art Nouveau motifs; the windows are decorated like the doorway, some with billet mouldings. A very ornate corbel table runs along the north and south walls of the nave and round the apse, each corbel decorated with an individual carving, some abstract and others semi-naturalistic. The 4 gables have carved apex crosses, and the roof has 2 small louvred dormers. INTERIOR is complete in the same style, with arches to transepts and chancel, and several wall niches similar to those of the exterior.

Listing NGR: SD3747820057