ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GRANGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218019
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH
Statutory Address:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GRANGE ROAD

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Date:: 2002-08-05
Reference:: IOE01/07130/23
Rights:: © Dr Geoffrey Court. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218019
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH
Statutory Address 1:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GRANGE ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GRANGE 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 32142 88559

Details

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3288NW GRANGE ROAD 789-1/13/69 (South side) 28/03/74 Roman Catholic Church of St Werburgh

II

Roman Catholic Church. 1835-37, possibly by M.E. Hadfield. Pink sandstone ashlar, rusticated to basement, with Welsh slate roof. Liturgical west front is pedimented with full height pilasters at angles, and cross on pediment apex. Flat projecting porch with doorway in its south wall. 5-bay nave, with windows in flat entablatures with scrolled brackets on north wall. Projecting confessional booths against north wall. Interior renewed completely, late C20. The presbytery is separately listed (ref 13/70).

Listing NGR: SJ3214288559

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Legacy System number:: 389204
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.