Church of St George (United Reformed) is a Grade II* listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Church. 3 related planning applications.

Church of St George (United Reformed)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of St George (United Reformed), St Georges Way, CH63 1JJ
OS grid reference
SJ 304 809
Coordinates
53.32115, -3.0455
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St George, originally a Congregational church and now a United Reformed Church, was built between 1906 and 1907 by architect J. Lomax Simpson for Lord Leverhulme. It is constructed of stone and features a stone slate roof. The church is designed in a Romanesque style and comprises a five-bay nave, transepts, a crossing tower, a chancel, and a south vestry.

The exterior includes a flat sill course, buttresses, and a corbel table. The windows are characterized by three round-headed lights with colonnettes and tympana, while the eastern windows have two lights with decorated tympana. The western gabled porches feature round-headed entrances with three orders and doors that have elaborate iron strap hinges. The west end is adorned with a three-light window and a tympanum featuring interlacing designs. The transepts have angle buttresses, paired round-headed lights, and flanking three-bay blind arcading, with a round window above that has zig-zag moulding.

The tower has angle buttresses with nook shafts, and its bell stage includes a sill course, a three-bay blind arcade with central two-light louvred openings, clasping buttresses, a corbelled parapet, and a recessed pyramidal roof. An octagonal turret at the southeast has blind arcading and a pyramidal roof. The chancel features a round apse with five windows and buttresses with nook shafts, as well as windows on the north and south sides. The vestry has a parapet and five windows between paired shafts, along with a lateral stack and entrance. The north porch to the chancel has a gabled east end with an entrance, and the organ loft contains a six-bay blind arcade with two windows, a drip mould with bosses, and a gable with a small window.

Inside, the church features a waggon roof with tie beams, crossing arches on paired responds, and interlace arcading in the chancel. There is extensive carving, including biblical scenes on the capitals. The west end of the nave has a screen, and the pulpit and choir stalls, along with a round font, are richly decorated.

Local climate

Church of St George (United Reformed) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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