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Latitude: 53.3587 / 53°21'31"N
Longitude: -3.0253 / 3°1'31"W
OS Eastings: 331859
OS Northings: 385133
OS Grid: SJ318851
Mapcode National: GBR 7Y9L.TQ
Mapcode Global: WH87D.HVL1
Plus Code: 9C5R9X5F+FV
Entry Name: Christ Church
Listing Date: 2 December 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1075450
English Heritage Legacy ID: 215456
ID on this website: 101075450
Location: Christ Church, Higher Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside, CH63
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Bebington
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bebington
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Higher Bebington Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
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BEBINGTON
Higher Bebington
KING'S ROAD (east side)
Christ Church
II
Church. 1857-9. By Walter Scott; steeple, 1885. Vestry
1899. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof.
Nave, aisles under lean-to roofs, north west tower and splay
spire, chancel and south vestry. 7-bay nave with 6-bay
aisles. Aisles have paired lancets with shafts and hood
moulds, south west 3-light nave window, south east entrance
of 2 orders with dog-tooth moulding to arch. Clerestory has
windows of 3 trefoil-headed lights. West end has 4-light
window with Geometrical tracery and flanking lancets, plain
entrance below and 3 lights to gable. Tower has angle
buttresses, west entrance and north 2-light plate tracery
window; paired louvred bell openings with trefoils over;
shingle splay spire. Chancel has 4-light window with hood
mould. Vestry has gabled west bay with 3-light plate
tracery window and east window of 3 trefoil-headed windows.
North organ loft has 3 cusped lancets and spherical triangle
window above with flat sill, east end as vestry. Interior:
has 6-bay arcades with alternate round and octagonal piers.
Arched scissor brace roof, that to chancel on angel corbels.
Screen of 1912, tracery lights, gates with strap hinges,
cornice with vine, cherubs and cresting with rood. Stone
pulpit, tracery over arched panels and buttresses. Blind
arcade to chancel east wall, and similar reredos. Square
font on shafts supporting angel corbels; carved panels have
symbols. Stone slab in porch wall has tracks of the
dinosaur, Cheirotherium.
Listing NGR: SJ3185985133
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