Description

SJ 39 SW WALLASEY MANOR ROAD
(south side)
Liscard
3/53 Memorial Chapel
-

- II*

Unitarian Chapel. 1898-9. By Waring and Rathbone. Arts
and Crafts style. Brick with stone dressings, tile roof.
Rectangular 6-bay chapel has narthex, hall to left and
vestry, library etc to rear. Stone quoins, flush bands and
coped gables. Gable-end of chapel has 5 half-octagonal
shafts with wrought iron finials and 2 ovolo-mullioned
windows of 3 lights with 2 transoms, leaded glazing and
cornice. Nathex has plain cornice; 5-light mullioned window
with datestone to left. Porch to left in form of octagonal
turret has 3 round arches on squat columns with entasis and
stiff-leaf capitals. Winged allegorical figures to angles
support half-octagonal shafts with wrought iron finials.
Upper stage has cross-mullioned windows to alternate faces,
cornice and ramped parapet; pyramidal roof. Round-headed
entrances have paired fielded-panelled doors. Right angle
of narthex has small recessed porch with round arches to
front and return on columns as above. Hall has hipped roof
and ramped parapet; 4-light window with king mullion and 3
transoms. Right return has mullioned and transomed windows
between flat buttresses. Interior: End bay forms small
raised chancel with screen of 3 round arches. Arch-braced
timber roof. Important furnishings by Bromsgrove Guild,
with painted decoration by Bernard Sleigh; commumion table,
pulpit and choir stalls. Decorative iron work, electroliers
etc, by Walter Gilbert, who made copper panels for lectern.
4 panels of Birkenhead Della Robbia Ware in chancel.

Listing NGR: SJ3091592150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wallasey Memorial Unitarian Church at Wikipedia
• Wallasey Memorial Unitarian Church official website
• Wikidata Q7962988

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