Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MARY (1330344)

SJ 58 SW HALTON CASTLE ROAD (West Side) 5/26 Church of St.Mary 23.4.70 II Parish Church 1851 by Sir G.G.Scott. Red sandstone with slate roof. Lofty 4 bay nave with side aisle and chancel roof at lower level. Bell-turret to nave east gable. Squared snecked rubble walls with angle buttresses to chancel and corner buttresses to nave. Main Gothic entrance in south aisle. Windows curvilinear to chancel and nave, trefoil to clerestorey have drip moulds with stops carved as faces. All have stained glass. The octagonal bell-turret has trefoil openings surmounted by gablets and there are gablet kneelers to the gables. Interior Gothic aisle arcades supported on clusters of four shafts. Organ chamber and Memorial Chapel flank the chancel north and south. Good alabaster reredos and oak chapel screens. Boarded waggon roof to _ chancel and similar roof with exposed rafters to nave, trusses carried on corbels carved as faces. Oak benches with simple poppyheads. Listing NGR: SJ5372981908