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St George's Church, Everton 
St George's Church, Everton, from the south53°25′31″N 2°58′17″W / 53.4253°N 2.9715°WCoordinates: 53°25′31″N 2°58′17″W / 53.4253°N 2.9715°W Location Everton, Liverpool, Merseyside Country England Denomination Anglican Website http://www.ironchurch.weebly.com History Dedication Saint George Consecrated 1814 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade I Designated 12 July 1966 Architect(s) Thomas Rickman Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1813 Completed 1815 Specifications Length 119 feet (36 m) Width 47 feet (14 m) Height 96 feet (29 m) Materials Ashlar stone with cast iron components Administration Parish St George, Everton Deanery Liverpool North Archdeaconry Liverpool Diocese Liverpool Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Rev Kate Wharton Laity Reader Bob Harrington Churchwarden(s) Paul Findell St George's Church, Everton, is in Everton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England (grid reference SJ355924). It is a Grade I listed building[1] and the earliest of three churches in Liverpool built by John Cragg, who used many components in cast iron which were made at his Mersey Iron Foundry.[2][3] It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool, the Liverpool archdeaconry, and the Liverpool North deanery.[4]
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History
The building of the church was enabled by an Act of Parliament, the St. George's Church, Everton Act, which was passed in 1813. The foundation stone was laid on 19 April 1813 and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 26 October 1814. The architect was Thomas Rickman and the church was built by John Cragg.[5]
Structure
The outer shell of the church is built in stone while the interior is in cast iron.[5] Its plan consists of a west tower, a seven-bay nave with aisles, and a short chancel. Porches flank the tower and chancel. The tower has diagonal buttresses, an arched west door with a three-light window above. The next stage has a clock on three faces and above this are three-light bell-openings which are partly glazed and partly louvred. On the summit is an embattled parapet with pinnacles at the corners. All the windows have cast iron tracery. Internally the nave has arcades of cast iron and the aisles have galleries. The roof is of cast iron.[1] The architectural style of the church is Perpendicular. Tie rods were added in the 20th century.[2]
Fittings and furniture
Most of the stained glass was destroyed in the Second World War. The only complete survivor is a window dated 1863 by A. Gibbs. The glass in the east window dates from 1952 and is by Shrigley and Hunt. The memorials include one under the tower to John Rackham who died in 1815 which was designed by Thomas Rickham and carved by S. & J. Franceys, a memorial to Thomas W. Wainwright, a surgeon who died in 1841 with a relief of the Good Samaritan by W. Spence, and in the north gallery is a Gothic tabernacle by E. E. Geflowski to the memory of Walter Fergus MacGregor who died in 1863.[2] The original chair frame bell was made by Ainsworth of Warrington. It was restored in 1937 by George Eccles but vandalised in the late 1960s. The present clock was made by Smiths of Clerkenwell and installed in 1973.[6]
References
- ^ a b Images of England: Everton Parish Church of St George, Liverpool, English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=1&id=214256, retrieved 6 October 2008
- ^ a b c Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006), The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, pp. 417–418, ISBN 0 300 10910 5
- ^ The other "cast iron" churches in Liverpool were St Michael's Church, Aigburth and St Philip's Church (since demolished) in Hardman Street.
- ^ Deanery of Liverpool North, diocese of Liverpool, http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/index.php?p=382, retrieved 6 October 2008
- ^ a b St. George's Church, Everton, Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks, http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Liverpool/Everton/indexsg.html, retrieved 6 October 2008
- ^ Evans, Dave (2005), St. George's Church, Everton, http://www.emanuensis.btinternet.co.uk/george.htm, retrieved 11 October 2008
External links
Categories:- Churches in Liverpool
- Grade I listed buildings in Liverpool
- Grade I listed churches
- Anglican Diocese of Liverpool
- Church of England churches in Merseyside
- Buildings and structures completed in 1815
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
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