Description

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SJ38NW
789-1/4/280
28/03/74

BIRKENHEAD
OLD CHESTER ROAD, Tranmere
(West side)
Church of St Paul with St Luke

(Formerly listed as Church of St Paul)

GV
II

Parish church. 1854-5. By W. and J.Hay. Coursed and squared
red sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. Nave with transepts, and
chancel. Tower and spire to north of chancel. Massive tower
with heavy angle buttresses, one housing stair turret. Door
with shafts and hood mould over in north face. Second stage
has triple trefoiled windows in chamfered arcading with coping
over. Angles are heavy pinnacles to brooch spire with clock
and tall thin louvred lucarnes forming bell-chamber lights.
Nave has three 2-light Decorated windows to south and door
towards east, against the projecting vestry which halances the
tower to south of chancel. Massive west window of 5-lights.
Scar of porch over north doorway within added hall complex.
4-light Decorated window to transepts with 5 trefoiled lancets
below. 5-light Decorated east window, with crucifix as war
memorial below. Interior: aisleless nave of 3 bays defined by
pointed arched braced principal rafters carried on long wall
posts springing from corbels. Shallow transepts forming a
dramatically wide crossing, the roof trusses forming a
quadripartite vault over. Moulded and chamfered chancel arch.
Chancel screen dated 1910 and enriched 1922. By Hastwell
Grayson. Ogee traceried open-work panels in Perpendicular
style, and central enriched arch. Crucifix with figures of
Saints Mary and John on coved canopy over. Pulpit in similar
style erected when the screen was enriched, 1922. Elaborate
painted reredos, the original centre-piece of between 1883 and
1897 representing Christ in majesty, the hinged wings a later
addition (after 1907), with painted saints and angels. Marble
octagonal font with low relief angels at the cardinal points.
Stained glass: east window, angels and archangels. Figures of
saints in north and south chancel windows, and white glazed
ceramic low relief annunciation scene in lower part of south
window. Figures of bishops and St George in north transept
lower lights. Lower lights of south transept are scenes from
the life of Mary, 1920-1922. Upper window the life of St Paul,
1922.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3252486837

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Paul with St Luke, Rock Ferry at Wikipedia
• Church of St Paul with St Luke, Rock Ferry official website
• Wikidata Q15978949

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Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)