Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
unlit-keystone-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 January 1988
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of St Andrew, Meols Drive, CH48 5DA
OS grid reference
SJ 212 872
Coordinates
53.37617, -3.18581
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew is a church begun in the late 19th century, between 1889 and 1891, by Douglas and Fordham. Construction was completed between 1907 and 1909 by Douglas and Minshull. The church is built of snecked stone with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. It comprises a nave with aisles, a crossing, north and south transepts and a chancel. The nave has five bays, with aisles having 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery between large buttresses; the clerestory has 3-light straight-headed windows. North and south gable porches have raking lateral buttresses. The west end features a 4-light window with flanking gabled buttresses and a consecration stone. The crossing has coped gables to north and south. The church has an unusual spire, covered in slate, which is set diagonally, with slate pinnacles flanking louvred bell-openings. The transepts have deep buttresses; the south transept has a 4-light window with a shield in the tracery, and paired 2-light windows to the east, while the north transept has paired 2-light windows with a 4-light window above. The chancel has an embattled parapet with tracery panels, paired 3-light north and south windows, and a 5-light east window with flanking statues in niches and a satin inscription above and below; the gable has a statue in a niche. A north-west octagonal stair turret is also present.

Inside, the nave has five bays supported on octagonal piers, with a waggon roof incorporating wall shafts. There is an octagonal font with tracery panels and a timber cover with crocketed pinnacles. The west wall has panelling with coving. The crossing has choir stalls and a low west wall. A north organ loft stands above the vestry. A south chapel features parclose screens. Choir and sanctuary arches are corbelled. The reredos, dated 1911 and the work of G. Webb, includes canopied figures. Sedilia and a piscina are located to the south. Good glass is found in the north aisle, chapel and chancel, designed by H. Bryams and influenced by Kempe.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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