Manor Church Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Church.
Manor Church Centre
- WRENN ID
- pale-sentry-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor Church Centre, formerly known as Egremont United Reformed Church and church hall, is a Non-conformist church built between 1907 and 1908 by the architectural firm Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornley. It is constructed of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a nave with passage aisles, a southwest tower (with the ritual west being the actual east), and a short chancel that is adjacent to a hall at a right angle to the church.
The west end of the church showcases three cusped lights with 1:3:1-light windows above, which have weathered sills and Perpendicular tracery. The flanking porch bays are adorned with swept gables and embattled parapets, featuring segmental-pointed entrances with niches above. The tower on the south side includes angle buttresses and paired cusped louvred bell openings, with a cornice that displays beast and foliage carvings and a tracery-panelled embattled parapet. At the base of the tower, there is a canted bay with cusped lights.
The south side of the church has three projecting gabled bays with clasping buttresses, while the other two bays feature parapets and three-light windows. The north side mirrors this design, with the western bay canted as a tower and the eastern two bays forming a transept with two gables. To the rear, there is a two-storey chapel keeper's house. The east window of the church is a five-light window with two king mullions. The church hall consists of four bays and has four-light single-chamfered-mullioned windows with transoms set between flat buttresses. It features a segmental-pointed entrance to the left, a three-light window above, and a parapet. The right return has a canted end and an adjacent porch.
Inside, the church has five-bay arcades with arches that die into octagonal columns. The roof is a hammer-beam style supported by foliate corbels, and there is a west gallery above the porch. The chancel features blind tracery and a Tudor-flower cornice below the window, with north and south arches leading to organ lofts. The octagonal pulpit includes figures in niches, and the stalls have traceried ends. The font is decorated with tracery panels and supported by four green columns. The church also contains good stained glass from the 1890s and 1900s, including two windows and some single lights by Morris and Co.
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