Congregational Church, Hoylake

Congregational Church, Hoylake

West end of the Congregational Church, Hoylake
Congregational Church, Hoylake

Location in Merseyside

Coordinates: 53°23′24″N 3°10′50″W / 53.3900°N 3.1805°W
OS grid reference SJ 216 888
Location Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside
Country England
Denomination Independent Evangelical
Website Hoylake chapel
Architecture
Status Independent
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 28 January 1991
Architect(s) Douglas and Minshull
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1905
Completed 1906
Specifications
Materials Brick and sandstone
Slate roofs

The Congregational Church is in Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1]

History

The church was built in 1905–06, and designed by the Chester architects Douglas and Minshull. It was originally a Congregational church.[2] As of 2012 it is an independent evangelical church.[3]

Architecture

Exterior

Constructed in red brick with sandstone dressings and standing on a sandstone plinth, the church is roofed with Westmorland slates. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a southwest porch, north and south transepts, and an apse at the east end. It originally had a flèche over the crossing, but this was damaged in the Second World War, and has not been replaced. At the west end is a six-light window containing Perpendicular tracery. This is flanked by buttresses, and on the corners are crocketed pinnacles. The clerestory contains three-light windows, and along the sides of the aisles are lancet windows. In the apse are two and three-light windows.[1]

Interior

The interior of the church is clad in sandstone, and has a hammerbeam roof. The floor at the east end of the church is in black and white marble. The font consists of a curved bowl on four large buttresses.[1] The furnishings were made by James Merritt, and include simple benches and an elaborate pulpit. The stained glass in the windows at the east end, dating from 1922, is by H. G. Hiller, and there are two windows in the aisles by A. J. Davies dating from the 1920s.[2] The three-manual pipe organ was made by Hope-Jones, and subsequently cleaned and altered by Norman and Beard.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Historic England. "United Reformed Church, Hoylake (1258515)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 406, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
  3. ↑ History, Hoylake Chapel, retrieved 20 March 2012
  4. ↑ Cheshire (Merseyside), Hoylake, Congregational Church (N04394), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 20 March 2012