Church of St Stephen
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, PRENTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282512
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, PRENTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282512
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, PRENTON LANE
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 STEPHEN, PRENTON LANE
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 30802 86308
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ38NW PRENTON LANE, Prenton
789-1/4/240 (South side)
28/03/74 Church of St Stephen
II
Parish Church. Begun 1897. By C.E.Deacon. Completed 1907 by
Deacon and Horsburgh. Coursed and squared rubble (brick
internally) with red tiled roof. Nave with lean-to aisles with
projecting east chapels, chancel. 5-light west window. South
aisle with stepped lancet windows in superordinate arches -
paired lancets in east and west bays, quadruple lancets in two
central bays. Doorway towards west in plain moulded archway.
High parapet with plain corbel table and heavy western turret.
Triple lancet to east of lower chancel. North aisle similar,
but with main doorway towards west, with stepped moulded and
chamfered arch in advanced gable with statue in niche over.
Interior: exposed brickwork with stone bands. Arcade of 4 bays
with square chamfered piers with foliate capitals and plain
chamfered arches. Narrower wertern arch. Terracotta
hoodmoulds. Arched braced King post roof. Steeply pointed arch
to chancel carried on free-standing piers with carved angel
capitals. Another similar arch marks sanctuary. Keeled
panelled ceiling to chancel. Carved wood pulpit, lectern,
choir stalls, altar rails and altar. Reredos with angels
playing musical instruments in niches with canopy over. All
these furnishings by Deacon. Brick sedilia with terracotta
putti. Stained glass: east window as war memorial, 1914-18,
Christ in Majesty.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3080286308
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389296
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51414
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2525
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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