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St Andrew's Church, West Kirby Location in Merseyside
St Andrew's Church, West KirbyCoordinates: 53°22′34″N 3°11′09″W / 53.3761°N 3.1858°W OS grid reference SJ 212 872 Location West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside Country England Denomination Anglican Churchmanship Modern Anglo-catholic Website St Andrew, West Kirby History Dedication Saint Andrew Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 20 January 1988 Architect(s) Douglas and Fordham
Douglas and MinshullArchitectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1889 Completed 1909 Specifications Materials Sandstone, slate roof
Slate-hung spire and pinnaclesAdministration Parish St Andrew, West Kirby Deanery Wirral North Archdeaconry Chester Diocese Chester Province York St Andrew's Church, West Kirby, is located in Meols Drive, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Wirral North.[1] The church is a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
This was originally from 1891 a chapel of ease to St Bridget's Church and became a separate parish in 1920.[3] Building of the church began in 1889–91 by Douglas and Fordham and was completed in 1907–09 by Douglas and Minshull.[4]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. It is cruciform in shape, and its plan consists of a five-bay nave, with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a crossing, north and south transepts, and a chancel. Above the crossing is a tower which is set diagonally on which is a slate-hung spire and four slate-hung pinnacles. The south transept forms a chapel and the north transept holds the organ chamber. At the west end is a four-light window and at the east end a five-light window flanked by niches containing statues. The chancel has embattled parapets.[2][4]
Interior
The columns of the arcade are octagonal. The font is also octagonal and it has a timber cover with crocketed pinnacles. In the crossing are the choirstalls, and the chapel to the south has a parclose screen. On the south wall of the chancel are a piscina and a sedilia.[2] The reredos is by Geoffrey Webb, is dated 1911, and contains canopied figures. It is painted and gilded, and described by the authors of the Buildings of England series as "magnificent".[4] At the west end of the church, dating from 1952, is a canopy forming a baptistry. The stained glass in the south transept, the north aisle and the east window is by Herbert Bryams, a pupil of Kempe. There are also two windows dating from the 1990s by Septimus Waugh.[4]
See also
- List of new churches by John Douglas
References
- ^ St Andrew's, West Kirby, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/west-kirby-st-andrew/, retrieved 26 September 2011
- ^ a b c Images of England: Church of St Andrew, Hoylake, English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=1&id=443651, retrieved 21 March 2008
- ^ West Kirby, Genuki, http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/westkirby.html, retrieved 21 March 2008
- ^ a b c d Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 662, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
Further reading
- Hubbard, Edward (1991), The Work of John Douglas, London: The Victorian Society, pp. 176–177, ISBN 0-901657-16-6
Categories:- 19th-century church buildings
- Anglican congregations established in the 19th century
- Religious buildings completed in 1909
- Buildings and structures in Wirral (borough)
- Church of England churches in Merseyside
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Merseyside
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- John Douglas buildings
- Diocese of Chester
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