Church Of St Michael

BOOTLE MAIN STREET SD 18 NW (east side) 12/6 Church of St Michael 8.9.67 GV II Church. Medieval but heavily restored C19, transepts 1837, west tower c.1860-80. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings, chancel roughcast, and slate roofs. Nave with transepts and west tower, chancel with south organ loft. Tower has angle buttresses and string courses. West entrance has pointed trefoil head under relieving arch, 2 lancets and clock above, north canted stair turret has hipped roof with tiny dormer. 2 lancet louvred bell openings with flanking blind lancets; Lombard frieze, coped parapet with pinnacles; pyramidal roof with cross. 2-bay nave has lancets with continuous hoodmould extended across transepts; north elevation has traces of entrance. Transepts have stepped triple lancets with single lancets to returns, that to south with lateral stack. Chancel has 3-light round-headed window over raking base, with massive raking buttress to south; coped gable with cross; north elevation has 2-light window with tracery and entrance with shouldered lintel; south elevation has lean-to organ loft with quoins and deeply splayed lancets. Interior: has nave and transepts with collar and tie-beam trusses, ceiled above collars, with king and queen struts. 2-bay arcades to transepts, round chancel arch is double-chamfered, part original. Octagonal font on C19 stem has shields to sides, initials: RB (possibly R Brown, rector c.1535); Hudleston arms and black-letter inscription; C19 pinnacled cover. Chancel has piscina in C19 surround; small wall brass to Sir Hugh Askew (died 1562). C19 stalls with traceried panels. E window by Hardman, chancel north window by Holiday (date of death 1899) and transept windows by Ward and Hughes.

Listing NGR: SD1072588392