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© Mr John Taylor
IoE Number:
214256
Location:
EVERTON PARISH CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, HEYWORTH STREET
LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE
Photographer:
Mr John Taylor
Date Photographed:
30 June 2001
Date listed:
12 July 1966
Date of last amendment:
19 June 1985
Grade
I
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SJ 3592 HEYWORTH STREET
L5
19/592 Church of
St. George
(formerly listed
as Everton Parish
Church of
12.7.66 St. George).
G.V. I
Church. 1812-14. Thomas Rickman with John Cragg. Ashlar,
in Perpendicular style. West tower, nave and short chancel.
Flanking low porches to tower and chancel. Tower has
diagonal buttresses; single pointed arched door, 3-light
window above. 3-faced clock and 3-light bell openings part
glazed and part louvred. All windows have cast iron
tracery. Open traceried battlemented parapet with pinnacles
at angles. Flanking porches have 2-light window; entrances
to north and south have carved spandrels and label moulds.
Nave of 7 bays with buttresses and tall 3-light windows.
Shallow chancel with 6-light window. Low battlemented side
bays; S entrance. Interior: Nave has arcades of cast iron
with traceried spandrels. Aisles have galleries with
traceried panelled fronts. Cast iron traceried roof on iron
columns and arch braces to nave and galleries. Tie rods
across width of church. C19 stained glass to E window and W
end of balconies, by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster. The
cast iron structure is an important early example, the
result of the encouragement of John Cragg, owner of the
Mersey Iron Foundry.