Oxton Road Congregational Church
OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OXTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291881
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Oxton Road Congregational Church
- Statutory Address:
- OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OXTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291881
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Oxton Road Congregational Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OXTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, WOODCHURCH ROAD
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:
- OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OXTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, WOODCHURCH 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 31165 88080
Details
SJ3188
789-1/11/111
BIRKENHEAD
OXTON ROAD (West side)
Oxton Road Congregational Church
28/03/74
GV
II
Includes: Oxton Road Congregational Church WOODCHURCH ROAD.
Congregational Church. 1857-8. By William Cole. Coursed and squared rubble with Westmorland slate roof. Wide nave with (liturgical) north tower. Massive tower with clasping buttresses terminating in truncated pinnacles. West door with steep moulded arch with shafts and ogee cusped foliated hood mould over. Blank traceried band below paired bell chamber lights. Embattled parapet, now missing original angle pinnacles. Nave has 7-light west window with reticulated tracery. Canted baptistery projects below with trefoiled lights. Angle buttresses with heavy octagonal pinnacles. Nave divided into 6 bays by buttresses, with 3-light Decorated windows and flat roofed porch towards south-west with chamfered and moulded arched doorway. Doorway towards south-east, with rose window over, cut by added hall block on south side.
(The Buildings of England: Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971).
Listing NGR: SJ3116588080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389267
- 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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