- Church of Saint Bridget, Liverpool
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Church of Saint Bridget, Liverpool 
Bagot Street, showing St Bridget'sLocation in Merseyside
Church of Saint Bridget, LiverpoolCoordinates: 53°23′48″N 2°56′03″W / 53.3966°N 2.9341°W OS grid reference SJ 379 892 Location Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside Country England Denomination Anglican Website Saint Bridget, Liverpool History Consecrated 1872 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 28 March 1952 Architect(s) E. A. Heffer Architectural type Church Style Italianate Groundbreaking 1868 Completed 1872 Specifications Materials Brick with a slate roof Administration Deanery Toxteth and Wavertree Archdeaconry Liverpool Diocese Liverpool Province York The Church of Saint Bridget, Liverpool is in Bagot Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building,[1] and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the deanery of Toxteth and Wavertree.[2]
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History
The foundation stone was laid on 21 September 1868 and the church was consecrated in 1872. It was originally a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree and became a parish in its own right in 1901.[3] The architect was E. A. Heffer who designed the fabric of the church and its fittings.[4]
Structure
The church is built in the style of an Italianate basilica. It is constructed of common brick with banding of red and blue brick, and a slate roof. The plan consists of a nine-bay nave with a clerestory, lean-to aisles, a chancel with a round apse and a high thin northwest campanile with narrow lights. All the windows are round-headed.[1][4] The top stage of the campanile has round-headed, louvred bell-openings and sill courses, a cornice and a pyramidal roof. The west front has an enclosed porch with a gabled round-headed entrance over which is a roundel with a bust of Christ. Above this are three windows surmounted by a roundel.[1] Inside the church are arcades of nine bays with round arches supported by scagliola columns. The capitals alternately have oak and acanthus decoration. The ceilings are richly ornamented and coffered.[1][4]
Fittings and furniture
The altar is free-standing in the apse. The reredos is a mosaic depicting the Last Supper dating from 1866 by Salviati. The pulpit is large and rectangular, made of polychromatic stone and marble with a balustrade of Corinthian columns. The lectern stands on a simple marble column. The font is square and made of polychromatic marble with a mosaic medallion in each face. The stained glass in the clerestory windows is by Charles A. Gibbs and the glass in the First World War memorial is by H. Gustave Hiller.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d "Church of Saint Bridget, Liverpool", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1068396, retrieved 11 August 2011
- ^ Deanery of Toxteth and Wavertree, Diocese of Liverpool, http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/index.php?p=383, retrieved 10 October 2008
- ^ St. Bridget's Church, Bagot St. Wavertree, Lancashire Online Parish Clerks, http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Liverpool/Wavertree/stbridget/index.html, retrieved 10 October 2008
- ^ a b c d Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006), The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, p. 493, ISBN 0 300 10910 5
Categories:- Churches in Liverpool
- Grade II* listed buildings in Liverpool
- Grade II* listed churches
- Anglican Diocese of Liverpool
- Church of England churches in Merseyside
- Religious buildings completed in 1872
- Italianate architecture in the United Kingdom
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