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St John's Church, Birkdale 
St John's Church, Birkdale, from the southwestLocation in Merseyside
St John's Church, BirkdaleCoordinates: 53°37′22″N 3°00′50″W / 53.6228°N 3.0138°W OS grid reference SD 330 145 Location St John's Road, Birkdale, Southport, Merseyside Country England Denomination Anglican Website St John, Birkdale Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 29 July 1999 Architect(s) Paley, Austin and Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1889 Completed 1910 Specifications Materials Brick with terracotta and sandstone dressings
Red tiled roofsAdministration Parish St John, Birkdale Deanery North Meols Archdeaconry Warrington Diocese Liverpool Province York St John's Church, Birkdale, is located in St John's Road, Birkdale, Southport, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of North Meols, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
St John's was built in 1889–90, and designed by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley. It was enlarged in 1909–10 by the addition of a north aisle and an arcade.[3]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed in brick, with dressings in glazed brick and terracotta, and some timber framing.[2] The roofs have red tiles, and the bellcote has a spirelet clad with green Westmorland slate.[3] The architectural style is Arts and Crafts with some Perpendicular details. The plan of the church consists of a nave with north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a chapel to the south and a north vestry, and a bellcote at the west end. The aisles embrace double transepts. On the south side is a timber-framed porch with a square three-light window to its right. The transepts have a central buttress, with a tall, three-stage, two-light window on each side of it. On the west side of the transepts, and in the apexes of the gables, is timber studwork. In the south wall of the chapel is a square three-light window.[2] The west window has six lights, and the east window, five lights;[2] These windows are in Decorated style, with terracotta mullions, and sandstone tracery.[3] The bellcote contains two-light windows, surmounted by a broach spire, with a metal finial.[2]
Interior
Inside the church the brickwork is exposed, The arcades are carried on Perpendicular-style red sandstone piers without capitals springing into brick arches. The authors of the Buildings of England series consider that the stained glass in the east window is by Barrowclough and Sanders, and that elsewhere there are windows by Abbott and Company, and by Shrigley and Hunt.[3] The three-manual organ was built in about 1893 by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool.[4]
See also
- List of works by Paley, Austin and Paley
References
- ^ St John, Birkdale, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/st-johns-birkdale/, retrieved 16 October 2011
- ^ a b c d e Church of St John, Birkdale (1379771). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ a b c d Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 639, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ Lancashire (Merseyside), Southport-Birkdale, St. John, St. John's Road (N09332), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N09332, retrieved 16 October 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Merseyside
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Merseyside
- Religious buildings completed in 1910
- 19th-century Church of England church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in Merseyside
- Anglican Diocese of Liverpool
- Paley, Austin and Paley buildings
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