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© Mr John Taylor
IoE Number:
359626
Location:
CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES, ULLET ROAD (north side)
LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE
Photographer:
Mr John Taylor
Date Photographed:
22 November 2002
Date listed:
14 March 1975
Date of last amendment:
14 March 1975
Grade
I
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SJ 3788 ULLET ROAD
(north side)
L17
33/1246 Church of
Saint Agnes
14.3.75.
G.V. I
Church, 1883-5. J. L. Pearson. Brick with stone dressings,
tile roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs,east and
west transepts (ritual west is actual south). Short chancel
with canted end and ambulatory, flanked by turrets. South
chapel. Aisles have 2-light plate tracery windows between
gabled buttresses, lancets to clerestory. West end has
angle buttresses framing three 2-light windows, entrance with
small buttresses between. Gallery above, with arcaded
balustrade and stepped 3 light window; gable cross.
Flanking porches under lean-to roofs arches of 2 orders to
both sides and cinquefoil windows. West transepts have
lancets and angle buttresses. East transepts have 4-light
windows. Lead fleche at east end of nave. Chancel has
lancets flanked by narrower blind lancets, with wall shafts.
South chapel has aisles and 3-light east window. Interior:
stone. 4-bay nave with arcades on round piers, corbelled
wall shafts, gallery and quadripartite vault (no ridge rib).
Porch at west end has 3 arches and gallery above. North
west transept is baptistry with marble font. North west
transept has octagonal organ loft on marble piers. North
and south chapels to west of east transepts. Chancel has
apsed end, arcading with arches paired under relieving arch
with roundel. Angels in spandrels, gallery and relief
panels of Adoration of the bands, statues of angels over.
Iron grilles to ambulatory. Low marble wall to chancel.
South chapel has south aisle and north aisle formed by
ambulatory. South transept has timber gallery. Good
stained glass, including windows by Kempe. "The noblest
Victorian church in Liverpool" (Pevsner).