Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MEOLS DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242750
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MEOLS DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242750
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MEOLS DRIVE
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 ANDREW, MEOLS DRIVE
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 21210 87244
Details
SJ 28 NW HOYLAKE MEOLS DRIVE (east side) West Kirby
4/30 Church of - St. Andrew
- II
Church. Begun 1889-91, by Douglas and Fordham. Completed 1907-9, by Douglas and Minshull. Snecked stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, crossing, north and south transepts, and chancel. 5- bay nave, aisles with 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery between large weathered buttresses, clerestory has 3-light straight-headed windows. North and south gable porches with raking lateral buttresses. West end has 4- light window with flanking gabled buttresses and consecration stone. Crossing has coped gables to north and south. Unusual slate-hung spire set diagonally with slate- hung pinnacles flanking louvred bell-openings. Transepts have deep weathered buttresses, that to south has 4-light window with shield in tracery, and paired 2-light windows to east, that to north has paired 2-light windows with 4-light window above, east paired round windows. Chancel has embattled parapet with tracery panels, paired 3-light north and south windows, and 5-light east window with flanking statues in niches and satin inscription above and below, gable has statue in niche. North west octagonal stair turret. Interior: 5 bay nave on octagonal piers, waggon roof with wall shafts. Octagonal font has tracery panels and timber cover with crocketed pinnacles. West wall has panelling with coving. Crossing has choir stalls and low west wall. North organ loft over vestry. South chapel has parclose screens. Choir and sancturary arches are corbelled. Reredos 1911 by G. Webb, with canopied figures. Sedilia and piscina to south. Good glass to north aisle, chapel and chancel by H. Bryams, influenced by Kempe.
Listing NGR: SJ2121087244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443651
- 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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