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Latitude: 53.3329 / 53°19'58"N
Longitude: -2.9788 / 2°58'43"W
OS Eastings: 334912
OS Northings: 382222
OS Grid: SJ349822
Mapcode National: GBR 7YMW.WZ
Mapcode Global: WH87M.6HR9
Plus Code: 9C5V82MC+5F
Entry Name: Church of St Barnabas
Listing Date: 27 December 1962
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1183871
English Heritage Legacy ID: 215375
ID on this website: 101183871
Location: St Barnabas's Church, Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside, CH62
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Bromborough
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bebington
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Bromborough St Barnabas
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SJ 38 SW, 6/56
BEBINGTON,
CHURCH LANE (north side),
Bromborough
Church of St Barnabas
27.12.62
G.V.
II*
Church. 1862-1864, steeple, 1880. By Sir Gilbert Scott.
Stone with slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to
roofs, chancel, south vestry and north east tower and broach
spire. Early English style. Aisles have sill course and 2-
light plate tracery windows with shafts and gablets. North
and south gabled porches have clasping buttresses with nook
shafts, and entrances of 2 orders. Clerestory has sexfoil
windows; west end has 2 lancets and plate-tracery rose
window. Chancel has round apsed end; moulded base, foliate
impost band and dog-tooth cornice; 3 lancets and weathered
buttresses. Tower has angle buttresses, 2-light windows,
lancets above, and paired 2-light louvred bell openings,
clock faces above. West canted stair turret. Lombard
frieze and spire with hipped lucarnes. Vestry has large
weathered buttresses, foliate cornice, east 2-light window
and south blind arcade with 2 lancets. Interior: has
arcades on octagonal piers with good carving to capitals.
Roof has braced collared rafters. Most glass by Clayton and
Bell, c.1870. Octagonal font on clustered shafts. Timber
screens and stalls of 1900; octagonal timber pulpit on stone
base. Chancel has 2-bay arcades set in giant arches with
quatrefoils, organ loft to north. Sanctuary has trefoil
blind arcading with diapered spandrels; reredos in form of
relief of the Last Supper. East window by Ballantine and
Son. 1863. A well-designed example of the work of Sir
Gilbert Scott.
Listing NGR: SJ3491282222
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