Church Of St Katharine

LOVERSALL LOVERSALL SK59NE

5/46 Church of St Katharine 5.6.68

GV II*

Church. c1300, C15 and c1530; nave and south aisle rebuilt 1855 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Ashlar and rubble magnesian limestone, lead and stone slate roofs. West tower, 4-bay nave with south aisle and porch; lower 2-bay chancel with separately-roofed south chapel. Tower: 4 stages; lower part c1300, altered; top stage Perpendicular. Chamfered plinth, moulded band, diagonal west buttresses and string courses between stages. Pointed west door, offset to left, has quadrant-moulded surround as does 3-light window over; Perpendicular 2-light window to 3rd stage. Offset beneath belfry stage with louvred, 2-light pointed windows and string course with north and south gargoyles beneath embattled parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles. Nave: gabled porch of 1861. Aisle: chamfered plinth, trefoiled 2-light windows with hoodmoulds dropped from oversailing parapet having roll-moulded copings. Square-headed, cusped 2-light windows with hoodmoulds. Chancel: lower, partly roughcast. Two C19 windows to north have cusped intersecting tracery and carved hoodmould stops; similar 3-light east window; gable copings. Wirral chapel, of c1530, is of ashlar with chamfered plinth. 2-light windows to south and east have Tudor-arched lights in hollow-chamfered surrounds beneath basket arches; arched string course over east window; old flush- panelled door to west in hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded surround beneath Wirral arms, another heraldic plaque to south; quadrant-moulded oversailing course beneath roll-moulded parapet copings. Interior: chamfered and quadrant-moulded tower arch. Perpendicular south arcade has octagonal piers, moulded capitals and low double-chamfered arches with hoodmoulds; C19 shouldered-arched window heads. Chancel arch: double- chamfered, the inner order on corbels (that to south with carved head). Chapel arcade, Perpendicular and similar to aisle; to its east is part of an earlier window behind plaster. Font: round base to bowl on chamfered shaft. Fittings: 2 stalls in chancel have misericords with bearded faces of C14; another altered stall of same date. Painted arms of George III (1785) over chancel arch. Hatchnent of the Banks family. Monuments: in chancel, the Wylson tomb: floor slab with Latin rim inscription (Sir William d.1513). In chapel: early C14 effigy of knight with shield and sword; another chest tomb with shields in quatrefoiled side panels. Brass to Benjamin Staveley. Wall monument to William Dixon (d.1783) by Materworth of Doncaster: corniced plaque surmounted by bust set before on obelisk. Carvings over chapel arcade depict Wirral arms and those of Hugh Wombwell of Greasbrough (John Wirral married Mary Wombwell c1520).

Listing NGR: SK5761398733