Description

BOOTLE BREEZE HILL SJ 39 NW (north side) 9/13 Christ Church G.V. II Church. 1866. By Slater and Carpenter. Red stone with yellow stone banding, slate roof. Nave with aisles; west tower with porch; chancel with north vestry and south chapel. Tower has set back buttresses; 3-light west window with plate tracery and clock face above. Porch has hipped roof and south entrance. Bell stage has clasping buttresses with nook shafts and paired louvred bell openings. Splayed spire has quatrefoil pinnacles at angles and quatrefoil piercings. 5-bay nave has aisles with paired cusped lancets between weathered buttresses. Clerestory has 10 single lights. Vestry and chapel have hipped roofs and two 2-light plate tracery windows. Chancel has canted end and 2-light windows. Interior has painted brick polychromy. Nave arcades on round piers with early English capitals. Arch- braced collar roof on corbels. Chancel arch on paired responds; arcading and 3-bay reredos with mosaic work. Wrought iron light fittings. Font under tower of 1871, octagonal on marble piers. Screen of 1920, organ of 1925. The church occupies an important site overlooking the town.

Listing NGR: SJ3482595124

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