Memorial Chapel
MEMORIAL CHAPEL, MANOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273517
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL CHAPEL, MANOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273517
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEMORIAL CHAPEL, MANOR ROAD
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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:
- MEMORIAL CHAPEL, MANOR 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 30915 92150
Details
SJ 39 SW WALLASEY MANOR ROAD
(south side)
Liscard
3/53 Memorial Chapel
-
- II*
Unitarian Chapel. 1898-9. By Waring and Rathbone. Arts
and Crafts style. Brick with stone dressings, tile roof.
Rectangular 6-bay chapel has narthex, hall to left and
vestry, library etc to rear. Stone quoins, flush bands and
coped gables. Gable-end of chapel has 5 half-octagonal
shafts with wrought iron finials and 2 ovolo-mullioned
windows of 3 lights with 2 transoms, leaded glazing and
cornice. Nathex has plain cornice; 5-light mullioned window
with datestone to left. Porch to left in form of octagonal
turret has 3 round arches on squat columns with entasis and
stiff-leaf capitals. Winged allegorical figures to angles
support half-octagonal shafts with wrought iron finials.
Upper stage has cross-mullioned windows to alternate faces,
cornice and ramped parapet; pyramidal roof. Round-headed
entrances have paired fielded-panelled doors. Right angle
of narthex has small recessed porch with round arches to
front and return on columns as above. Hall has hipped roof
and ramped parapet; 4-light window with king mullion and 3
transoms. Right return has mullioned and transomed windows
between flat buttresses. Interior: End bay forms small
raised chancel with screen of 3 round arches. Arch-braced
timber roof. Important furnishings by Bromsgrove Guild,
with painted decoration by Bernard Sleigh; commumion table,
pulpit and choir stalls. Decorative iron work, electroliers
etc, by Walter Gilbert, who made copper panels for lectern.
4 panels of Birkenhead Della Robbia Ware in chancel.
Listing NGR: SJ3091592150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 444469
- 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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