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Church of All Saints

A Grade II Listed Building in Clatterbridge, Wirral

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3203 / 53°19'13"N

Longitude: -3.0445 / 3°2'40"W

OS Eastings: 330518

OS Northings: 380885

OS Grid: SJ305808

Mapcode National: GBR 7Z51.NG

Mapcode Global: WH87L.6SHY

Plus Code: 9C5R8XC4+45

Entry Name: Church of All Saints

Listing Date: 2 December 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1075381

English Heritage Legacy ID: 215578

Also known as: All Saints, Thornton Hough

ID on this website: 101075381

Location: All Saint's Church, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Merseyside, CH63

County: Wirral

Electoral Ward/Division: Clatterbridge

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Thornton Hough All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

Description


BEBINGTON RABY ROAD SJ 3080 (south-east side) Thornton Hough 16/244 Church of All Saints

G.V. II

Church. 1867. By Kirk and Sons for J. Hirst. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof with tile ridge. Nave, south west tower, north west porch, transepts, chancel, north organ loft and south vestry. 4-bay nave has Lombard frieze and 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery between gabled buttresses. Tower has angle buttresses, entrance of 2 orders; 2-light windows with shafts; 5-face clock above; top cornice and broach spire with pinnacles, gabled lucarnes of 2 lights, 2 further tiers of lucarnes. West end of nave has 5-light window. North gabled porch, lancet with trefoil over and return entrance. Transepts have 3-light windows and spherical triangle windows above. Chancel has 3-light east window with 2-light window to north and south. Vestry has east entrance under gable, south cusped lancet. Organ loft has window of 3 cusped lights. Interior has arch-braced roof. Chancel arch with flanking segmental-pointed arches on round columns. Chancel has scissor-truss roof, corbelled transverse arch to sanctuary. Reredos has relief of Last Supper with flanking quatrefoils with relief carvings. C20 stalls and pulpit. Wall memorial to J. Hirst, the founder, died 1874 in south transept; cusped gabled panel. Some C19 stained glass, most is C20.

Listing NGR: SJ3051880885

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