Church of Christ the King
CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING, BECKWITH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1201589
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1987
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING, BECKWITH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1201589
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING, BECKWITH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING, BECKWITH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 31129 89507
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/11/2014
SJ3089
789-1/7/22
BIRKENHEAD
BECKWITH STREET (North side)
Church of Christ the King
(Formerly Listed as: BECKWITH STREET Church of St Anne)
28/03/74
GV
II
Parish Church. 1846-50. By William Cole, the chancel extended in 1892-3 by Charles Aldridge. Red sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Decorated style with heavy detailing. West tower and spire, nave with transepts and chancel. West door with ogival hood mould over, and Decorated window above. 3 tiers of blind arcading over, then tall paired bell chamber lights with ogee foliated hood moulds. Fretted tracery to parapet, with flying buttresses to crocketted spire. 2-bay nave and transepts, divided by gabletted buttresses with pinnacles, each bay with 3-light Decorated windows. Embattled parapets. Transept doorways to north and south with windows over in continuous hollow chamfered archway. Statues in canopied niches flank the doorways. Chancel clasped by flanking vestries. Interior now gutted and renewed.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3112989507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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