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Windleshaw Chantry - Listed Building

Windleshaw Chantry

Windleshaw Chantry is a Grade II* Listed Building in Windle, St. Helens. Here is the description: 

SJ 49 NE
3/65

ST. HELENS,
ABBEY ROAD (west side),

Ruins of Windleshaw Abbey in Roman Catholic Cemetery (Chapel of Saint Thomas of Canterbury)

(Formerly listed as Ruins of Windleshaw Abbey, Hard Lane under General)

11.9.51

G.V. II*

West tower and part of walls of chantry chapel of Sir Thomas Gerard, known as Windleshaw Abbey. c.1453. Stone. Tower has pointed entrance and west window with signs of tracery head, probably of 3-lights. 2-light bell openings have reticulated tracery, tracery bars missing to that on south side. Plain chamfered tower arch. Walls, partly reconstructed, support memorials, including a celtic-style cross at the east end.


Listing NGR: SJ4996296958