15 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*

Church of the Blessed Virgin MaryGrade II* listedRe-Used Calvary Cross Slab, Churchyard of the Church of the Blessed Virgin MaryGrade II* listed

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c. 1793

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Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

The first 4 entries were listed in 1967. 8 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Eccleston has 15 listed buildings, including Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 8 of 15. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and John Rigby (1570) and John Finch (1548) were born here before 1900.