Description

SJ 28 NW HOYLAKE CALDY ROAD
(north side)
Caldy

4/2 Church of
Resurrection and
- All Saints

G.V. II

Church. Built originally as school, 1868, by G.E. Street.
Extensively altered and north aisle, chancel and north east
tower added 1906-7 by Douglas and Minshull. Rock-faced
stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof with tile crest.
Nave with north aisle and baptistry, chancel with north
vestry and saddle-back tower. Nave has gabled south porch
and straight -headed window of 3 cusped lights. Buttress
marks division between nave and choir, which has paired 2-
light windows and end gabled buttress. West end of nave has
paired 2-light traceried windows with straight heads. North
aisle has 2 single-chamfered-mullioned windows of 4 lights,
the west gable end with straight-headed 3-light window with
trefoil heads to lights over canted baptistry with single
lights. Chancel has south straight-headed window of 5
lights, east window of 3 stepped lights with splayed reveals
and shafts. Panel over dated 1907. Tower projects to east,
entrance has lintel dated 1882 from chapel at Manor House.
East gabled stair turret. Gable ends have Y-tracery louvred
bell openings, smaller lights to north and south. North
west stack. Interior: Nave has arch-braced collar roof;
north side has inscribed beam on chamfered stone piers.
Sanctuary arch has continuous mouldings. Fittings of choir
and sanctuary of 1882 by C.E. Kempe taken from Manor House
chapel. Screen to west and north has posts supporting
entablature, the 2 central posts with angels and rood above.
Choir stalls and altar rail have panels of marquetry and
turned balusters. Reredos similar with crucifixion.
Tapering octagonal font with ribs and inscription; painted
baptistry ceiling. Good stained glass, some by C.E. Kempe
and one by A.J. Davis of the Bromsgrove Guild. Vestry has
fireplace with coat of arms, dated 1868.

Listing NGR: SJ2262285248

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy at Wikipedia
• Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy official website
• Wikidata Q5118038

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)