Oxton Road Congregational Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Church. 1 related planning application.
Oxton Road Congregational Church
- WRENN ID
- proud-lantern-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Oxton Road Congregational Church, Woodchurch Road, CH43 5RF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 311 880
- Coordinates
- 53.38508, -3.03638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oxton Road Congregational Church, located on Oxton Road in Birkenhead, was built between 1857 and 1858, designed by William Cole. The church is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with a Westmorland slate roof. It features a wide nave and a prominent north tower, the latter characterized by clasping buttresses that end in truncated pinnacles. The west entrance is distinguished by a steep, moulded arch with shafts and an ogee cusped foliated hood mould. Above, a blank traceried band sits below paired bell chamber windows, topped by an embattled parapet, which has lost its original angle pinnacles. The west window is a large, seven-light design with reticulated tracery. A canted baptistery projects to the north, featuring trefoiled windows. Angle buttresses rise with heavy, octagonal pinnacles. Inside the nave, six bays are defined by buttresses, with three-light, Decorated-style windows. A flat-roofed porch is situated towards the south-west, incorporating a chamfered and moulded arched doorway. A further doorway on the south-east leads to an added hall block, concealing a rose window above.
Local climate
Oxton Road Congregational Church 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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