Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, BREEZE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283643
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, BREEZE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283643
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, BREEZE HILL
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, BREEZE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 34825 95124
Details
BOOTLE BREEZE HILL SJ 39 NW (north side) 9/13 Christ Church G.V. II Church. 1866. By Slater and Carpenter. Red stone with yellow stone banding, slate roof. Nave with aisles; west tower with porch; chancel with north vestry and south chapel. Tower has set back buttresses; 3-light west window with plate tracery and clock face above. Porch has hipped roof and south entrance. Bell stage has clasping buttresses with nook shafts and paired louvred bell openings. Splayed spire has quatrefoil pinnacles at angles and quatrefoil piercings. 5-bay nave has aisles with paired cusped lancets between weathered buttresses. Clerestory has 10 single lights. Vestry and chapel have hipped roofs and two 2-light plate tracery windows. Chancel has canted end and 2-light windows. Interior has painted brick polychromy. Nave arcades on round piers with early English capitals. Arch- braced collar roof on corbels. Chancel arch on paired responds; arcading and 3-bay reredos with mosaic work. Wrought iron light fittings. Font under tower of 1871, octagonal on marble piers. Screen of 1920, organ of 1925. The church occupies an important site overlooking the town.
Listing NGR: SJ3482595124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216413
- 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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