St Paul's Church, Hooton

53.2906 - 2.9509Koordinaten: 53 ° 17 ' 26 " N, 2 ° 57 ' 3" W

St Paul 's Church is a church building in the village of Hooton, Cheshire, England. It is an active parish church of the Church of England in South Wirral Deanery within the Diocese of Chester. The church is led by English Heritage since 17 May 1985 Grade II on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard described the building in Buildings of England as " undoubtedly one of the most spectacular churches in Cheshire ".

History

The church was built in 1858-1862, designed by James K. Colling on behalf of the Liverpool banker R. C. Naylor. The cost was £ 5,000 ( in today's prices, £ 340,000 ).

Architecture

St Paul's is walled in a mixture of red and white stone and red stone. The roofs are slated. The plan is cruciform. The nave consists of a nave with three bays, a side aisle to the north and south sides and the two transepts and porches to the north and south. The aisles sit in the sanctuary as ambulatory continued. Above the crossing of the base of the dome, which rises above Pendentife and is surmounted by a lantern on a short spire. Above the south porch of a church steeple with lace, the west portal is decorated in the Romanesque style, also there is a rosette. Also some of the other windows in the church are inspired by the Romanesque style, but the remaining window openings have pointed arches with tracery.

Inside the church are the arcades in Peterhead granite from Boddam, Aberdeenshire, with capitals in early Gothic style. The baptismal font is made ​​of dark green serpentine. It dates from 1851 and was awarded at the Great Exhibition of that year with a gold medal.

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  • Church building in England
  • Buildings in Cheshire West and Chester
  • Grade II building in England
  • Church building ( Anglican)
  • Church building in the Neo-Renaissance
  • Neo-Gothic church building
  • Neo-Gothic building in England
  • St. Paul's Church
  • Built in the 1860s
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