Church Of Resurrection And All Saints

SJ 28 NW HOYLAKE CALDY ROAD (north side) Caldy

4/2 Church of Resurrection and - All Saints

G.V. II

Church. Built originally as school, 1868, by G.E. Street. Extensively altered and north aisle, chancel and north east tower added 1906-7 by Douglas and Minshull. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof with tile crest. Nave with north aisle and baptistry, chancel with north vestry and saddle-back tower. Nave has gabled south porch and straight -headed window of 3 cusped lights. Buttress marks division between nave and choir, which has paired 2- light windows and end gabled buttress. West end of nave has paired 2-light traceried windows with straight heads. North aisle has 2 single-chamfered-mullioned windows of 4 lights, the west gable end with straight-headed 3-light window with trefoil heads to lights over canted baptistry with single lights. Chancel has south straight-headed window of 5 lights, east window of 3 stepped lights with splayed reveals and shafts. Panel over dated 1907. Tower projects to east, entrance has lintel dated 1882 from chapel at Manor House. East gabled stair turret. Gable ends have Y-tracery louvred bell openings, smaller lights to north and south. North west stack. Interior: Nave has arch-braced collar roof; north side has inscribed beam on chamfered stone piers. Sanctuary arch has continuous mouldings. Fittings of choir and sanctuary of 1882 by C.E. Kempe taken from Manor House chapel. Screen to west and north has posts supporting entablature, the 2 central posts with angels and rood above. Choir stalls and altar rail have panels of marquetry and turned balusters. Reredos similar with crucifixion. Tapering octagonal font with ribs and inscription; painted baptistry ceiling. Good stained glass, some by C.E. Kempe and one by A.J. Davis of the Bromsgrove Guild. Vestry has fireplace with coat of arms, dated 1868.

Listing NGR: SJ2262285248