St Agnes & St Pancras, Toxteth Park
St Agnes & St Pancras, Toxteth Park
St Agnes and St Pancras is a Grade I parish church on Buckingham Avenue / Ullet Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, in the Diocese of Liverpool.
- Location
- Toxteth Park, Merseyside
- Country
- England
- County
- Merseyside
- City / town
- Toxteth Park
- Address
- Buckingham Avenue, Toxteth Park, Merseyside, L17 3BA
- Postcode
- L17 3BA
- Built
- 1883–85
- Consecrated
- 1885
- Architect
- John Loughborough Pearson
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Agnes and Pancras
- Diocese
- Liverpool
- Parish
- Toxteth Park St Agnes and St Pancras
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Gothic Revival (Early French / High Victorian)
- Materials
- Red brick with stone dressings and a tile roof; stone interior (Caen stone)
- Grid reference
- SJ 375 884
- Opening hours
- Between 1st March and 30th September: open Wednesdays and Fridays 10am to 3pm plus for sepecial events as advertised on the church website. Other times and during winter by arrangement (contact the Vicar on 0151 733 1742 or Ian on 0791 643 5395).
- Access
- Steps to enter the church or churchyard
- Website
- http://www.stagnes.org.uk/
Overview
Historic England lists a church of 1883–85 by J. L. Pearson: brick with stone dressings and a tile roof. The plan is a nave with lean-to aisles, east and west transepts, a short chancel with canted end and ambulatory flanked by turrets, and a south chapel. Aisles have two-light plate-tracery windows between gabled buttresses; the west end has a gallery with an arcaded balustrade. The stone interior has a four-bay nave on round piers, corbelled wall shafts, a gallery and a quadripartite vault. The north-west transept is a baptistry with a marble font; the listing quotes Pevsner’s “The noblest Victorian church in Liverpool.” Listing NGR: SJ3758988493.
Wikipedia and the parish record that H. Douglas Horsfall and his mother paid about £28,000 as a memorial to Robert Horsfall. The church was consecrated in 1885. The National Churches Trust notes a Caen-stone interior evoking Amiens and Reims, Kempe glass, a west window by A. G. Moore, a reredos by Nathaniel Hitch and a Lady Chapel screen by Bodley.