Highfield United Reformed Church
HIGHFIELD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ROCK LANE WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291815
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHFIELD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ROCK LANE WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291815
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHFIELD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ROCK LANE WEST
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:
- HIGHFIELD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ROCK LANE WEST
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 32920 86074
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ38NW ROCK LANE WEST, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/250 (South side) 28/03/74 Highfield United Reformed Church (Formerly Listed as: ROCK LANE WEST (South side) Highfield Road Congregational Church)
II
United Reform (formerly Congregationalist) church. 1870-71. By David Walker. Rock faced white Storeton stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Southwest tower and spire, nave with 2 aisles and shallow transepts. West door with short paired shafts and flanking windows. 4-light Decorated window over. Polygonal side chapel to north west. Tower has clasping buttresses and short paired shafts with foliate capitals and deep moulded arch to south door. Tall lancets over, then paired louvred bell chamber lights with gablets forming brooch of spire. Bases only of angle pinnacles. 3-light Decorated windows to aisles. 4-light Decorated windows to transepts. Hall and vestry to east with apsidal east end, suggesting chancel. Squared mullioned windows to ground floor, 2-light Decorated windows beneath gablets over. Interior space modified by inserted suspended ceiling. Arcade of 3 bays with clustered cast iron shafts with foliate capitals. Eastern arch behind sanctuary formerly housing organ now partially blocked. Western gallery. Stained glass windows in (liturgical) north wall by J.Capronnier of Brussels, dated 1876 and 1889 and employing a highly pictorial technique. Further window in Pre-Raphaelite style representing Moses and St.John either side of Christ: dated 1876 but the central figure replaced following war damage. Complex series of lecture halls and vestries to east of church. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3292086074
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389310
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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