Description

SJ 28 NW HOYLAKE STANLEY ROAD
(south side)
Hoylake

4/34 Church of
17.10.86 St. Hildeburgh

- II

Church. 1897-9. By Edmund Kirby. Red brick and terracotta
with tile roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs,
chancel with north organ loft and vestry, south chapel,
Aisles have windows of paired and triple lancets. North
west gabled porch, timber-framed on brick base. Clerestory
has cusped octofoil windows. West end has stepped gabled
buttresses rising above roof level. Lean-to baptistry has 3
square traceried windows. 4 lancets under cusped gables and
flanking blind lancets, top octofoil. Chancel has clasping
buttresses and east window with central cross and
quatrefoils to sides; consecration stone beneath. Tall
gabled chimneys to north; and south.. Vestry has half-hipped
gables and porch under cat-slide roof; hipped lean-to
extension to east. Chapel has canted end with 3 lancets;
south side has 3 lancets with gablets and bell in iron
frame; west vesica window over aisle roof. Interior: 5-bay
nave arcades, including narrow west bay, on round polished
granite columns. Scissor-braced roof on wall shafts;
cornice to clerestory. Octagonal font with tracery and
symbols of evangelists. Chancel and sanctuary arches with
continuous moulding. Low timber chancel screen and richly
decorated octagonal pulpit and tester. Choir stalls and
organ case. South 3-bay arcade with parclose screen and
arcading over. Sanctuary has richly decorated timber
reredos with panel of Good Shepherd in tile and mosaic.
North wall has 3 painted panels. South sedilia with cusped
arches and crocketed gables.

Listing NGR: SJ2137888880

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Hildeburgh's Church, Hoylake at Wikipedia
• St Hildeburgh's Church, Hoylake official website
• Wikidata Q15979365

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas