- St Paul's Church, Hooton
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St Paul's Church, Hooton Location in Cheshire
St Paul's Church, HootonCoordinates: 53°17′26″N 2°57′03″W / 53.2906°N 2.9509°W OS grid reference SJ 367 775 Location Hooton, Cheshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Paul, Hooton Architecture Heritage designation Grade II Designated 17 May 1985 Architect(s) James K. Colling Architectural type Church Style Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1858 Completed 1862 Construction cost £5,000 Specifications Materials Red and white stone
Slate roofsAdministration Parish St Paul, Hooton Deanery Wirral South Archdeaconry Chester Diocese Chester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Keith Howard St Paul's Church, Hooton, is in the village of Hooton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2] The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it as "unquestionably one of the most spectacular churches of Cheshire".[3]
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History
The church was built between 1858 and 1862 to a design by James K. Colling for the Liverpool banker R. C. Naylor at a cost of £5,000 (£350,000 as of 2011).[3][4]
Architecture
Exterior
St Paul's is constructed in a mixture of red and white ashlar stone and red rock-faced stone.[3] The roofs are slated. The plan of the church is cruciform.[2] It consists of a three-bay nave, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, a chancel with north and south aisles continuing as an ambulatory, a west porch and a south porch. Above the crossing is the base of a dome rising from pendentives surmounted by a lantern with a short spire. Above the south porch is a detached belfry spire. The west porch is Romanesque in style, and above it is a rose window. Some of the other windows in the church are Romanesque, while others have pointed arches with plate tracery.[2][3]
Interior
Inside the church the arcades are carried on Peterhead granite, with capitals in French Early Gothic style. The font is made from dark green serpentine. It dates from 1851, and gained a medal at the Great Exhibition that year.[2][3] The stained glass includes windows by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, Clayton and Bell, and Kempe.[3] The two manual organ was built by Rushworth and Dreaper.[5]
References
- ^ St Paul, Hooton, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hooton-st-paul/, retrieved 6 May 2011
- ^ a b c d "Church of St Paul, Chester Road", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1115407, retrieved 6 May 2011
- ^ a b c d e f Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 403, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ Cheshire (Merseyside), Hooton, St. Paul (N04365), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04365, retrieved 23 September 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cheshire
- Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
- Grade II listed churches
- Renaissance Revival architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1862
- Diocese of Chester
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