CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEWPORT AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391526
Date first listed:: 21-Jul-2005
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEWPORT AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391526
Date first listed:: 21-Jul-2005
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEWPORT AVENUE

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:: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NEWPORT AVENUE

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 28894 93058

Details

1916/0/10034 NEWPORT AVENUE 21-JUL-05 Church of St. Nicholas

II Church, 1910, by architect J Francis Doyle for F J and Sir Heath Harrison in memory of their parents, in Gothic style. Rock-faced Storeton sandstone with rubbed quoins and dressings, and a roof of Yorkshire stone flags. Chancel, central tower, north and south transepts, nave and aisles, north and south porches, Lady chapel and vestry. The church is aligned with the chancel to the west and nave to the east. EXTERIOR: Chancel has west window in decorated style with curvilinear bar tracery under hood mould. South side has three windows and north side one window in similar style. Angle buttresses at west end. On north side, vestry with 4-light shouldered arch window under straight hood mould on front and side face, 3-light similar window in gable, and pointed arch door. On south side, Lady chapel with window similar to chancel on west face, two windows on south side with curvilinear tracery under straight hood moulds, battlemented parapet. North and south transepts each with window similar to chancel west window, north transept has projecting square turret leading to tower between transept and vestry. Tower is central at junction of nave and chancel, square with battlemented parapet and hexagonal corner turret to north-west. Four-centred arch louvred window under hood mould on each side of tower. South and south aisles have 4 Tudor arch windows under straight hood moulds between buttresses, with gabled porch at east end on both sides. Clerestorey windows to nave with curvilinear tracery. East end window similar to west window. Fine stonecarving in door surrounds and in portrait bosses along side of nave. Stops of hood moulds on vestry and Lady chapel door are sculpted faces, other hood mould also with carved ends. 'Medieval monk' gargoyle and other decoration on lead rain-water outlets. INTERIOR: Chancel with stained glass window depicting the Apocalypse, above a finely carved oak reredos designed by the architect, with statues of Jesus with Virgin and St John, and angels to either side in nichews, intricately carved crocketed canopies and traceried retable. Roof in panelled vaulted wood with carved corbels. Organ by Nicholson of Worcester in loft to right over choir vestry. Choir stalls below. Pulpit in polished stone with diaper pattern carving around book and crossed trumpets panels, bronze book rest. Chancel arch rising from columns with faces carved into the capitals. Transepts both have stained glass windows and roofs with close-set king-post trusses. Lady chapel to left of chancel with carved wooden altar and reredos below stained glass window dedicated to Mabel Harrison. Two more stained glass memorial windows on south wall of Lady Chapel. Nave arcades have quatrefoil columns and pointed arches, with various carvings at the capitals. Fixed wooden pews in nave and aisles. Font in polished stone with octagonal bowl and quatrefoil shaft. Wooden screen at west end forming narthex. Screen forms a war memorial, with painted scenes from the Crucifixion and ascension, between lists of names of the fallen from World War One, and carved panels. East window is stained glass given in memory of F J Harrison, one of the founders of the church. To east of chancel is pierced wood and glass screen door to vestry which is wood panelled. Turret to bell tower is brick lined with spiral staircase to bell chamber and roof.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 492830
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/245580
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/176565
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2480
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2483

Legal

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