St Paul's Church, Hooton

Coordinates: 53°17′26″N 2°57′03″W / 53.2906°N 2.9509°W / 53.2906; -2.9509
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St Paul's Church, Childer Thorton
Style
Romanesque Revival,
Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking1858
Completed1862
Construction cost£5,000
Specifications
MaterialsRed and white stone
Slate roofs
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseChester
ArchdeaconryChester
DeaneryWirral South
ParishSt Paul, Hooton
Clergy
Vicar(s)Rev Mark Turner

St Paul's Church is in the village of

Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[2] The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it as "unquestionably one of the most spectacular churches of Cheshire".[3]

History

The church was built between 1858 and 1862 to a design by James K. Colling for the Liverpool banker R. C. Naylor at a cost of £5,000 (equivalent to £500,000 in 2021).[3][4]

Architecture

Exterior

St Paul's is constructed in a mixture of red and white ashlar stone and red rock-faced stone.[3] The roofs are slated. The plan of the church is cruciform.[2] It consists of a three-bay nave, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, a chancel with north and south aisles continuing as an ambulatory, a west porch and a south porch. Above the crossing is the base of a dome rising from pendentives surmounted by a lantern with a short spire. Above the south porch is a detached belfry spire. The west porch is Romanesque in style, and above it is a rose window. Some of the other windows in the church are Romanesque, while others have pointed arches with plate tracery.[2][3]

Interior

Inside the church the

Great Exhibition that year.[2][3] The stained glass includes windows by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, Clayton and Bell, and Kempe.[3] The two-manual organ was built by Rushworth and Dreaper.[5]

External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of five World War II airmen, four British and one Australian.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ St Paul, Hooton, Church of England, retrieved 6 May 2011
  2. ^ a b c d Historic England, "Church of St Paul, including south-west boundary wall and gates, Hooton (1115407)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 4 October 2013
  3. ^
  4. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", MeasuringWorth, retrieved 11 June 2022
  5. National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies
    , retrieved 1 July 2020
  6. ^ HOOTON (ST. PAUL) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 3 February 2013