Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ38NW CHRISTCHURCH ROAD, Oxton
789-1/4/219 (South side)
28/03/74 Christ Church

GV II

Parish Church. 1844. By W.Jearrad. Tooled ashlar faced with
Welsh slate roofs. West tower with spire, nave, transepts and
chancel on sloping site with undercroft towards liturgical
east. 2-stage tower with advanced ogival arch with clustered
shafts to west door, quatrefoil and clock over. Paired glazed
lights above. Plain block corbel table. Brooch spire with
lucarnes. Nave of 6 bays divided by buttresses capped by
pinnacles. Each bay has wide lancet window with lattice
glazing in double chamfered surround. 2 bays to 2-storeyed
transepts. Transept gable walls divided 1-3-1 by buttresses,
with stepped window to main storey and rose window over.
Doorway in steep projecting gablet toward east. East wall has
paired lancets in aisles over gabletted buttresses, and
doorway in south aisle. Stepped lancets to chancel, with rose
window over in full-height archway. Triple lancets lighting
hall below. Interior: Undivided nave of 6 bays with west
gallery and raking galleries to transepts. Original roof
replaced. Original seating and choir stalls survive virtually
intact. Willis organ. Two low-relief panels by T.Kelly as
memorial to James and Agnes Roper. Stained glass: Series of
late C19-early C20 windows in nave in medieval and
Pre-Raphaelite styles, including two early C20 windows signed
by Jones and Willis. Angels in rose windows over transepts.
The church is said to have been built as a speculation, and
was therefore designed for no particular liturgical practice.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3091087867

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Christ Church, Birkenhead at Wikipedia
• Christ Church, Birkenhead official website
• Wikidata Q15978935

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey