Christ Church

CHRIST CHURCH, BREEZE HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1283643
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
Statutory Address:
CHRIST CHURCH, BREEZE HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1283643
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
Statutory Address 1:
CHRIST CHURCH, BREEZE HILL

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

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