Listed Building: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (1161743)

CHURCH LAWTON C.P. SJ 85 NW 7/24 (Off) LIVERPOOL ROAD WEST Church of All Saints 14/2/1967 - II* Church. Romanesque door surround of C11 or C12. Perpendicular tower of before 1555 and neo-classical nave of 1803. Red and yellow sandstone ashlar to tower and porch. Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. Western tower, nave and south-western porch. Tower: western face: diagonal buttresses to the corners. Deeply chamfered doorway with pointed arch, hood mould and label stops. Three-light window above probably of C19 date with three pointed lights. Staircase lancets to right of this. Two-light louvred belfry opening above with Y-tracery, hood-mould and figurehead label stops, that at right being a grotesque head. Battlemented parapet with piers to the corners. The north face of the tower has a C20 service lean-to attached to its lower stage and a string course between the stages. Similar belfry to that on the western front. The southern face has the initials I B divided by a chalice in relief at right above the string course and a circular clockface to the centre below the belfry opening. Nave: the south face is of 4 bays of brick with a deep stone plinth with, to the left hand side, a porch built as a war memorial in 1926 of ashlar. This is gabled with a pointed, chamfered arch. Within and to either wall are benches above which are tablets in pointed niches inscribed with the names of the dead. The door to the church has a Romanesque surround, apparently re-positioned here. To either side are pilarettes with a hollow chamfer to their centres. At the level of the capitals is a band of leaf and dart moulding and to the arch and intrados are chevron patterns. To right of the porch are two round-arched windows and to the far right a doorway with stone surround and lunette window above. The north face is similar with 2 round-headed windows at left and two windows at right with a blocked doorway to right of centre. The western end has a Venetian window and hipped roof and a blocked doorway at right. Interior: Western gallery with front of raised and fielded panels supported on iron columns of quatrefoil section. Listing NGR: SJ8216455759