Church Of St Barnabas

The Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II* listed church located in Bebington, built between 1862 and 1864, with a steeple added in 1880. Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, it is constructed of stone with a slate roof and features a nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, a chancel, a south vestry, and a northeast tower topped with a broach spire. The church is designed in the Early English style.

The aisles have a sill course and are adorned with 2-light plate tracery windows that include shafts and gablets. Both the north and south gabled porches feature clasping buttresses with nook shafts and entrances of two orders. The clerestory is fitted with sexfoil windows, while the west end displays two lancets and a plate-tracery rose window. The chancel has a rounded apsed end, a moulded base, a foliate impost band, a dog-tooth cornice, three lancets, and weathered buttresses. The tower is supported by angle buttresses and includes 2-light windows, lancets above, paired 2-light louvred bell openings, and clock faces. A west canted stair turret, a Lombard frieze, and a spire with hipped lucarnes complete the tower.

The vestry is characterized by large weathered buttresses, a foliate cornice, an east 2-light window, and a south blind arcade with two lancets. Inside, the church features arcades on octagonal piers with intricately carved capitals. The roof is supported by braced collared rafters. Most of the stained glass is by Clayton and Bell, dating from around 1870. The octagonal font is set on clustered shafts, and there are timber screens and stalls from 1900, along with an octagonal timber pulpit on a stone base. The chancel includes two-bay arcades set in giant arches with quatrefoils, and an organ loft to the north. The sanctuary is adorned with trefoil blind arcading with diapered spandrels, and the reredos features a relief of the Last Supper. The east window was created by Ballantine and Son in 1863. This church is a well-designed example of Sir Gilbert Scott's work.