OS grid reference SJ 312 881 Denomination Pentecostal Phone +44 151 653 4013 Designated as world heritage site 28 March 1974 | Country England Opened 1858 Architectural type Church Groundbreaking 1857 | |
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Location Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside Website Wirral Christian Centre Former name(s) Oxton Road Congregational Church Address Woodchurch Rd, Wirral CH41 2UF, UK Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar Christ Church - Birkenhead, Birkenhead Town Hall, Wirral Transport Museum, Williamson Art Gallery and Muse, Birkenhead Central railway st Profiles | ||
2013 panto at the wirral christian centre
Wirral Christian Centre is a church on Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Elim Pentecostal Church. The church building, originally Oxton Road Congregational Church, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
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2013 panto at the wirral christian centre
History
The building originated as a Congregational church, it was built between 1857 and 1858, and designed by William Cole. The church cost over £5,000, and a further £2,500 was spent during the 1880s on improvements. It was badly damaged by fire in 1992, and was restored, but later became redundant, and fell into disrepair. In 2008 the building was restored again to become the Wirral Christian Centre.
Its first minister was Frederick Smeeton Williams.
Architecture
The church is built in rubble stone and has roofs of Westmorland slate. It consists of a wide six-bay nave with a tower on the north side. At the corners of the tower are clasping buttresses. There is a west door with a moulded arch at the base of the tower, and above this is a decorative hood mould. In the top stage are paired bell openings. The summit is battlemented with corner pinnacles that have been reduced from their original height. On the other corners of the church are angle buttresses rising to form tall octagonal pinnacles. The nave has a seven-light west window, beneath which is a canted baptistry. The bays of the nave are divided by buttresses and contain three-light windows with Decorated tracery. Towards the east end of the north side is a doorway, over which is a rose window. The interior is described as a "wide short auditorium over a basement".