Roman Catholic Church of St Werburgh is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Church.
Roman Catholic Church of St Werburgh
- WRENN ID
- pale-footing-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of St Werburgh, Grange Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 321 885
- Coordinates
- 53.38951, -3.0218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of St Werburgh, built between 1835 and 1837, is possibly designed by M.E. Hadfield. It is constructed from pink sandstone ashlar, which is rusticated at the basement level, and features a Welsh slate roof. The liturgical west front has a pediment supported by full-height pilasters at the corners, with a cross at the top of the pediment. There is a flat projecting porch with a doorway located in its south wall. The church has a 5-bay nave, with windows set in flat entablatures that have scrolled brackets on the north wall. There are also projecting confessional booths against the north wall. The interior was completely renewed in the late 20th century. The presbytery associated with the church is separately listed.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of St Werburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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