CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED)

CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), ST GEORGES WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1185603
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED)
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), ST GEORGES WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1185603
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED)
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), ST GEORGES WAY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (UNITED REFORMED), ST GEORGES WAY

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 30454 80977

Details

BEBINGTON ST. GEORGE'S WAY SJ 38 SW (north side) Thornton Hough 16/254 CHURCH OF ST GEORGE United Reformed Church

G.V. II*

Congregational, now United Reformed Church. 1906-7. By J. Lomax Simpson, for Lord Leverhulme. Stone with stone slate roof. Nave, transepts, crossing tower, chancel, south vestry. Romanesque style. 5-bay nave, sill course flat buttresses and corbel table. Windows of 3 round-headed lights with colonnettes and tympana, eastern windows of 2 lights with decorated tympana. Western gabled porches with round-headed entrances of 3 orders, doors with elaborate iron strap hinges. West end has 3-light window, tympanum with interlacing. Transepts have angle buttresses, paired round-headed lights and flanking 3-bay blind arcading, round window with zig-zag moulding above. Tower angle buttresses with nook shafts, bell stage has sill course, 3-bay blind arcade with central 2-light louvred openings, clasping buttresses, corbelled parapet and recessed pyramidal roof. Octagonal turret to south east has blind arcading and pyramidal roof. Chancel has round apse, 5 windows, buttresses with nook shafts, window to north and south. Vestry has parapet, 5 windows between paired shafts; lateral stack and entrance. North porch to chancel has gabled east end with entrance, organ loft has 6-bay blind arcade with 2 windows, drip mould with bosses, gable with small window. Interior: Waggon roof with tie beams. Crossing arches on paired responds, interlace arcading to chancel. Much carving, biblical scenes to capitals. Screen to west end of nave, pulpit and choir stalls, round font are richly decorated.

Listing NGR: SJ3045480977

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Legacy System number:: 215589
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.