Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. A Victorian Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- brooding-storey-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Christ Church, Barnston Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 280 832
- Coordinates
- 53.34087, -3.08211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a church built between 1870 and 1871 by G.E. Street. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a tile roof. The church consists of a nave, chancel, and a north vestry, with an additional vestry added to the west later. The nave includes a sill course and a coped west gable, along with weathered buttresses on the eastern side. The windows are designed with three stepped trefoil-headed lights, and there is a single light window opposite the north-west gabled porch, which has a return entrance. The west end features a flat-roofed vestry with three trefoil-headed lights, and two windows with two lights and plate tracery flank a gabled buttress that supports a simple octagonal bell cote.
The two-bay chancel has cusped lights and a three-light east window with simple tracery. The vestry, which has a lean-to roof, includes cusped lights and doors fitted with strap hinges. Inside, the church has an arch-braced collar roof, and the chancel arch dies into the jambs. There is a timber traceried screen on a stone base with a trefoil frieze and coving decorated with a Tudor flower. The pulpit features traceried panels, and there is notable 19th-century glass in the south window. A 20th-century octagonal font has a frieze at the base of the bowl. The chancel also includes an organ loft to the north, a south window with a splayed recess below, and cusped niches in the splays. The altar rail is traceried.
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