Church Of St Marie (Roman Catholic)

The Church of St Marie is a Roman Catholic church located on Seabank Road in Southport. Originally built in 1841 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, it was enlarged in 1852, rebuilt in 1875, and its facade was reconstructed in 1924 to replicate the original design. The church features a Portland stone facade with sandstone dressings and has steeply-pitched three-span roofs in the Decorated style.

The church's plan consists of a nave oriented on a north-east/south-west axis, with side aisles beneath parallel roofs and a three-sided apse. The facade is characterized by three unequal gables. The gable of the nave includes a full-width projected rectangular porch that houses a statue in a niche, flanked by gabled entrances with two-centred arched doorways. Two flying buttresses rise from the sides of the porch, with a semicircular vice beneath the left buttress topped with a semi-conical roof. Between the buttresses, there are three unequal lancets, the central one being shorter to accommodate a rose window above, along with a gabled bellcote. The smaller flanking gables of the aisles each feature a two-centred arched three-light window with tracery. The aisles have two-centred arched two-light windows, while the nave includes segmental-pointed two-light clerestory windows.

Inside, the church has seven-bay aisle arcades supported by quatrefoil columns that carry two-centred double-chamfered arches. The roof is a collar-truss design with king-struts, angle-struts, and long straight braces extending from the wall posts. At the west end, there is a five-sided organ and choir gallery supported on cast-iron columns, and the sanctuary features an elaborate carved reredos.