Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, KINGS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075450
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, KINGS ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075450
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, KINGS ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, KINGS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 31859 85133
Details
SJ 38 NW
3/132
BEBINGTON
Higher Bebington
KING'S ROAD (east side)
Christ Church
II
Church. 1857-9. By Walter Scott; steeple, 1885. Vestry
1899. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof.
Nave, aisles under lean-to roofs, north west tower and splay
spire, chancel and south vestry. 7-bay nave with 6-bay
aisles. Aisles have paired lancets with shafts and hood
moulds, south west 3-light nave window, south east entrance
of 2 orders with dog-tooth moulding to arch. Clerestory has
windows of 3 trefoil-headed lights. West end has 4-light
window with Geometrical tracery and flanking lancets, plain
entrance below and 3 lights to gable. Tower has angle
buttresses, west entrance and north 2-light plate tracery
window; paired louvred bell openings with trefoils over;
shingle splay spire. Chancel has 4-light window with hood
mould. Vestry has gabled west bay with 3-light plate
tracery window and east window of 3 trefoil-headed windows.
North organ loft has 3 cusped lancets and spherical triangle
window above with flat sill, east end as vestry. Interior:
has 6-bay arcades with alternate round and octagonal piers.
Arched scissor brace roof, that to chancel on angel corbels.
Screen of 1912, tracery lights, gates with strap hinges,
cornice with vine, cherubs and cresting with rood. Stone
pulpit, tracery over arched panels and buttresses. Blind
arcade to chancel east wall, and similar reredos. Square
font on shafts supporting angel corbels; carved panels have
symbols. Stone slab in porch wall has tracks of the
dinosaur, Cheirotherium.
Listing NGR: SJ3185985133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 215456
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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