Church of St Catherine
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1292231
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1292231
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
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 31872 87487
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ28NE CHURCH ROAD, Tranmere 789-1/3/278 (West side) 28/03/74 Church of St Catherine
GV II
Parish church. 1831, enlarged and altered 1875-6 by J.Francis Doyle, and tower and spire added 1879. Original build of brick, extended in rock face red sandstone, with Welsh slate roof. Original nave of 5 bays, with 4 windows and doors in western bay to north and south. One northern window now cut by inserted doorway. 2-light Decorated windows. 3-light Decorated west window in projecting square bay with quatrefoil over. Transepts and chancel form later additions, but with similarly styled fenestration. North-east tower and spire: 2-stage tower with high first stage with clasping buttresses and chamfered and moulded arched door to north. Foiled blind lancet over, then bell-chamber light with louvres. Stair turret in angle with chancel. Corbel table, embattled parapet and brooch spire with lucarnes. 5-light Decorated east window. Interior: aisleless nave of four-and-a-half bays with shallow hammerbeam roof of 1875-6. Western bay partially blocked by inserted hall. Moulded stone arches to transepts carried on short shafts. Scissor braced roofs, mostly renewed. Shafts with stiff-leaf capitals to chancel arch, and angel-head stops to hood mould. Integral stone pulpit, and contemporary octagonal font, both with marble shafts and stiff-leaf. Wrought-iron communion rails. Stained glass: simple fruits and flowers in transept windows, undated. Lamb of God and saints in east window, 1869. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3187287487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389156
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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