Church of St Barnabas
CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183871
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183871
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS, CHURCH LANE
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 34912 82222
Details
SJ 38 SW, 6/56
BEBINGTON,
CHURCH LANE (north side),
Bromborough
Church of St Barnabas
27.12.62
G.V.
II*
Church. 1862-1864, steeple, 1880. By Sir Gilbert Scott.
Stone with slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to
roofs, chancel, south vestry and north east tower and broach
spire. Early English style. Aisles have sill course and 2-
light plate tracery windows with shafts and gablets. North
and south gabled porches have clasping buttresses with nook
shafts, and entrances of 2 orders. Clerestory has sexfoil
windows; west end has 2 lancets and plate-tracery rose
window. Chancel has round apsed end; moulded base, foliate
impost band and dog-tooth cornice; 3 lancets and weathered
buttresses. Tower has angle buttresses, 2-light windows,
lancets above, and paired 2-light louvred bell openings,
clock faces above. West canted stair turret. Lombard
frieze and spire with hipped lucarnes. Vestry has large
weathered buttresses, foliate cornice, east 2-light window
and south blind arcade with 2 lancets. Interior: has
arcades on octagonal piers with good carving to capitals.
Roof has braced collared rafters. Most glass by Clayton and
Bell, c.1870. Octagonal font on clustered shafts. Timber
screens and stalls of 1900; octagonal timber pulpit on stone
base. Chancel has 2-bay arcades set in giant arches with
quatrefoils, organ loft to north. Sanctuary has trefoil
blind arcading with diapered spandrels; reredos in form of
relief of the Last Supper. East window by Ballantine and
Son. 1863. A well-designed example of the work of Sir
Gilbert Scott.
Listing NGR: SJ3491282222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 215375
- 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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