Church Of St Nicholas

SJ 59 SW ST. HELENS NEW STREET (west side)

8/84 Church of - Saint Nicholas

G.V. II

Church. 1848-9. Sharpe and Paley, tower of 1897. Rubble walling, with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 5-bay nave with aisles under lean-to roof; west tower; chancel with south organ loft. Aisles have cornice with beasts and parapet; 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery. Gabled south porch with pointed entrance of one order. Clerestory has spherical triangle windows. Tower has diagonal buttresses; west window of 3 lights with transom; 2-light louvred bell openings; embattled parapet; low stair turret. 3-bay chancel has gabled setback buttresses and foliated cornice and parapet. Small north vestry. 2 windows of 2 lights to north and south and 3-light east window. Organ loft has gable and 2-light window above buttress; east window in angle, of 2 lights under half relieving arch. Interior: high narrow nave with arcades on round piers. Collar-truss roof on wall shafts on angel corbels. Chancel arch on corbelled wall shafts with foliated corbels and capitals. Octagonal font with clustered shafts. Pulpit corbelled from wall with pointed entrance and canted stair turret in north aisle. Chancel has arch-braced collar roof. North and south stained glass windows of 1850's and 1890's. East window dated 1879 probably by Holiday and Powell; flanking commandment panels with nodding ogee heads.

Listing NGR: SJ5218592631