Description

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SJ 39 SW
3/70

WALLASEY
SEABANK ROAD (west side)
Manor Church Centre

(Formerly listed as Egremont United Reformed Church and church hall)

II

Non-conformist church. 1907-8. By Briggs, Wolstenholme and
Thornley. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof.
Nave with passage aisles, south west tower (ritual west is
actual east), short chancel with hall to south, at right
angle to church. West end has 3 cusped lights with 1:3:1-
light windows above with weathered sill and Perpendicular
tracery. Flanking porch bays have swept gables and
embattled parapets; segmental-pointed entrances with niches
above. Tower to south has angle buttresses and paired
cusped louvred bell openings; cornice has beast and foliage
carving, tracery-panelled embattled parapet. Canted bay to
base of tower with cusped lights. South side has 3
projecting gabled bays with clasping buttresses, other 2
bays have parapets; 3-light windows. North side similar,
western bay canted as tower, eastern 2-bay transept with 2
gables. Chapel keeper's house of 2 storeys to rear. 5-
light east window with 2 king mullions. Church hall of 4
bays has 4-light single-chamfered-mullioned windows with
transoms between flat buttresses. Segmental-pointed
entrance to left, 3-light window above, and parapet. To
right return has canted end and adjacent porch. Interior:
5-bay arcades with arches dying into octagonal columns.
Hammer-beam roof on foliate corbels. West gallery over
porch. Chancel has blind tracery and Tudor-flower cornice
below window; north and south arches to organ lofts,
Octagonal pulpit has figures in niches. Stalls have
traceried ends. Font has tracery panels and 4 green
columns. Good stained glass of 1890s and 1900s, 2 windows
and some single lights by Morris and Co.

Listing NGR: SJ3148792390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Manor Church Centre, Egremont at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979170

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]