Church of St Hildeburgh
CHURCH OF ST HILDEBURGH, STANLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259792
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hildeburgh
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HILDEBURGH, STANLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259792
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hildeburgh
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HILDEBURGH, STANLEY 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:
- CHURCH OF ST HILDEBURGH, STANLEY 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 21378 88880
Details
SJ 28 NW HOYLAKE STANLEY ROAD (south side) Hoylake
4/34 Church of 17.10.86 St. Hildeburgh
- II
Church. 1897-9. By Edmund Kirby. Red brick and terracotta with tile roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, chancel with north organ loft and vestry, south chapel, Aisles have windows of paired and triple lancets. North west gabled porch, timber-framed on brick base. Clerestory has cusped octofoil windows. West end has stepped gabled buttresses rising above roof level. Lean-to baptistry has 3 square traceried windows. 4 lancets under cusped gables and flanking blind lancets, top octofoil. Chancel has clasping buttresses and east window with central cross and quatrefoils to sides; consecration stone beneath. Tall gabled chimneys to north; and south.. Vestry has half-hipped gables and porch under cat-slide roof; hipped lean-to extension to east. Chapel has canted end with 3 lancets; south side has 3 lancets with gablets and bell in iron frame; west vesica window over aisle roof. Interior: 5-bay nave arcades, including narrow west bay, on round polished granite columns. Scissor-braced roof on wall shafts; cornice to clerestory. Octagonal font with tracery and symbols of evangelists. Chancel and sanctuary arches with continuous moulding. Low timber chancel screen and richly decorated octagonal pulpit and tester. Choir stalls and organ case. South 3-bay arcade with parclose screen and arcading over. Sanctuary has richly decorated timber reredos with panel of Good Shepherd in tile and mosaic. North wall has 3 painted panels. South sedilia with cusped arches and crocketed gables.
Listing NGR: SJ2137888880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443655
- 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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