Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Church.

Church Of St Mary

WRENN ID
ancient-newel-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a parish church built in 1868 by John Cunningham. It features roughly coursed and squared rubble with Welsh fishscale slate roofs. The church has a nave with a south-west tower and a polygonal apse, designed in the Early Decorated style. The west front includes a stepped foiled lancet window topped with a blind trefoil and a hood mould with carved heads as stops. The two-stage tower has angle buttresses and a south door adorned with triple shafts and stiff leaf capitals. The west wall has two tiers of triple lancets, and the bell chamber features triple lancets with a superimposed clock. A corbel table with beast heads, pinnacles, and an embattled parapet enhance the tower's design. The nave is divided into three bays by buttresses, with triple lancets in the outer bays and a central two-light Decorated window, all featuring hood moulds and a sill band.

To the south, there is a canted vestry with a trefoiled window in the west wall and a lancet window with a rose above in the gable. The polygonal apse has wide foiled lancet windows separated by buttresses. The north wall displays a series of three gables that form a vestry and hall complex, which has been partially rebuilt and incorporated into the church.

Inside, the nave is aisleless and has been extended to the north by opening into the rebuilt original halls and vestry. The roof features arched brace trusses with king struts over collars, supported by stone corbels. There is a plain moulded chamfered arch leading to the polygonal apse. The interior includes a richly decorated marble pulpit with foliate capitals and statues. Stained glass windows depict figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity in the south wall, dating from 1888, and a representation of the Last Supper spans five windows in the apse, created in a painterly style and dated 1874.

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