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Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea

A Grade II Listed Building in Seacombe, Wirral

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4114 / 53°24'40"N

Longitude: -3.0263 / 3°1'34"W

OS Eastings: 331874

OS Northings: 390997

OS Grid: SJ318909

Mapcode National: GBR 7X9Z.LV

Mapcode Global: WH876.HJ34

Plus Code: 9C5RCX6F+GF

Entry Name: Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea

Listing Date: 20 January 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1258191

English Heritage Legacy ID: 444549

ID on this website: 101258191

Location: Seacombe, Wirral, Merseyside, CH44

County: Wirral

Electoral Ward/Division: Seacombe

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Wallasey

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Seacombe St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

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Description


SJ 39 SW WALLASEY WHEATLAND LANE
(east side)
Wallasey

3/83 Church of Our
Lady Star of
the Sea

- II

Catholic church. 1898-9. by Edmund Kirby. Stone with slate roof.
Single vessel nave and chancel, aisles, chapels and baptistry. 5-bay
nave has lancets with splayed reveals, paired to clerestory; south
aisle has paired lancets, the central pair divided by weathered buttress,
and end single lancets, end buttresses; north aisle has 2 gabled
transeptal bays forming confessionals with rose windows. West front
has flanking gabled buttresses. Entrance has 2 segmental-headed doors
with sexfoil in tympanum with foliage; flanking windows and parapet
with trefoil-headed arches. Giant arch has 6 gabled lancets with
weathering and rose window above. Gabled north porch with north entrance
and south canted baptistry with trefoil-headed windows. Chancel has
canted end with 3-light window and 2 lancets to north and south.
North chapel has 2-light north window. South chapel has 2-light south
window with rose window in west gable. Tall gabled buttress to north
of chancel. Interior: 5-bay arcades on round piers; waggon roof.
Canted timber west gallery over porch. Octagonal stone pulpit on
clustered shafts has cusped arches and marble shafts. Chancel arch
has flanking canopied statues. Marble panelling to chancel and marble
altar, reredos with aedicule. Timber parclose screens in arches to
chapels. Good stained glass to chancel.


Listing NGR: SJ3187490997

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