Description

SJ 28 NW HOYLAKE CHURCH ROAD
(south side)
West Kirby

4/11 Church of
5/6/53 St. Bridget

- II

Church. C14 masonry, heavily restored, remains to chancel,
vestry east bay and north aisle. West tower 1492-1530 .
Restoration, south aisle and vestry west bay, 1869-70. By
Kelly and Edwards. Stone with slate roof. Nave, aisles, west
tower, chancel, north chapel and vestry. Tower has 2
diagonal buttresses. West entrance has arch with spandrel
quatrefoils and splayed reveals, the jambs panelled, the
lintel with armorial bearings and flowers; label mould. 3-
light Perpendicular west window paired 2-light bell
openings. Cornice and embattled parapet with tracery
panels. North aisle has 3:4:3-light square-headed windows
with cusped lights between deep weathered buttresses.
Gabled timber-framed porch. South aisle has 3-light
Decorated windows to west, south and east. Chancel has 5-
light east window, the tracery head has superimposed cusped
arches, a rare type (renewed). 3-light windows to south
between deep, weathered buttresses. Chapel has 4-light
window, square-headed with transom, and square-headed north
windows, one now obscured by vestry. Vestry east bay under
lean-to roof, west bay gabled with stack to west. Interior:
4-bay nave arcades with octagonal piers; arch-braced roof on
angel corbels, with wind braces. Flat-topped dormers, not
visible on exterior. Chancel arch has low wrought iron
screen and rood on overthrow, by C.E. Kempe Above arch are
relief figures of angels on stencilled ground also by Kempe.
West organ loft (moved from chapel), case by Douglas and
Fordham. C19 font, circular, with relief decoration and
traceried canopy. Canted pulpit has quatrefoils with relief
decoration. Chancel has waggon-boarded roof and 3-bay north
trefoil-headed arcade with wrought iron parclose screen.
Altar and timber reredos, re-used roof from Chester
cathedral. 2 sedilia and piscina with cusped arches. Stalls
have traceried bench ends. C17 bench ends in chapel. 2
windows in chancel are c.1860. 19 windows by Kempe
illustrating the development of his style from 1870 to
1906-7.

Listing NGR: SJ2182186408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Bridget's Church, West Kirby at Wikipedia
• St Bridget's Church, West Kirby official website
• Wikidata Q7592720

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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