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SJ 3788
33/1246

BUCKINGHAM AVENUE
Parish Church of St Agnes and St Pancras

(Formerly listed as Church of Saint Agnes, ULLET ROAD, L17)

14.3.75.

G.V.
I
Church, 1883-85. 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 two-light plate tracery windows between gabled buttresses, lancets to clerestory. West end has angle buttresses framing three two-light windows, entrance with small buttresses between. Gallery above, with arcaded balustrade and stepped three-light window; gable cross. Flanking porches under lean-to roofs arches of two orders to both sides and cinquefoil windows. West transepts have lancets and angle buttresses. East transepts have four-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 three-light east window.

Interior: stone. Four bay nave with arcades on round piers, corbelled wall shafts, gallery and quadripartite vault (no ridge rib). Porch at west end has three 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 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).

Listing NGR: SJ3758988493

External Links

• Church of St. Agnes and St. Pancras, Toxteth Park at Wikipedia
• Church of St. Agnes and St. Pancras, Toxteth Park official website
• Wikidata Q5117195

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)