OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

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
List Entry Name:: OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Statutory Address:: OXTON ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OXTON ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 389267
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.