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Latitude: 53.3851 / 53°23'6"N
Longitude: -3.0364 / 3°2'10"W
OS Eastings: 331165
OS Northings: 388080
OS Grid: SJ311880
Mapcode National: GBR 7Y79.F8
Mapcode Global: WH87D.B5CS
Plus Code: 9C5R9XP7+2F
Entry Name: Oxton Road Congregational Church
Listing Date: 28 March 1974
Last Amended: 10 August 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1291881
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389267
ID on this website: 101291881
Location: Wirral, Merseyside, CH43
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Birkenhead and Tranmere
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birkenhead
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Birkenhead Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SJ3188
789-1/11/111
BIRKENHEAD
OXTON ROAD (West side)
Oxton Road Congregational Church
28/03/74
GV
II
Includes: Oxton Road Congregational Church WOODCHURCH ROAD.
Congregational Church. 1857-8. By William Cole. Coursed and squared rubble with Westmorland slate roof. Wide nave with (liturgical) north tower. Massive tower with clasping buttresses terminating in truncated pinnacles. West door with steep moulded arch with shafts and ogee cusped foliated hood mould over. Blank traceried band below paired bell chamber lights. Embattled parapet, now missing original angle pinnacles. Nave has 7-light west window with reticulated tracery. Canted baptistery projects below with trefoiled lights. Angle buttresses with heavy octagonal pinnacles. Nave divided into 6 bays by buttresses, with 3-light Decorated windows and flat roofed porch towards south-west with chamfered and moulded arched doorway. Doorway towards south-east, with rose window over, cut by added hall block on south side.
(The Buildings of England: Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971).
Listing NGR: SJ3116588080
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