Christ Church (Port Sunlight)
Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '12.2 " N , 2 ° 59' 43.3" W The Christ Church is a church on Church Drive in Port Sunlight , Wirral , Merseyside , England . It is used by the United Reformed Church and is listed by English Heritage as aGrade II * listed building .
history
Port Sunlight was once a model settlement and was built for the workers of the soap factory of the Lever Brothers founded by William Lever . He had the Christ Church built between 1902 and 1904 at his own expense; the design comes from William and Segar Owen. The inauguration took place on June 8, 1904. The originally congregational church was later taken over by the United Reformed Church.
architecture
Exterior
The church was built in neo-Gothic style from red sandstone from Helsby , Cheshire , and the roof is made of slate . The floor plan includes the nave with six bays and the upper aisles , side aisles on the north and south sides with half-roofs, the church portal to the southwest, a double transept on the north side and a transept to the south. A canted apse with the tower is in the southeast, at the western end the Lady Lever Memorial. The windows on the aisles and the clergy have three openings and tracery in the perpendicular style . At the corners at the western end of the building there are angular protrusions on which parapets sit. The window to the west is a Tudor arch window with nine window openings. The transepts have buttresses with pinnacles on the gables ; There is an entrance in the south transept. There are also buttresses on the tower. The tower itself has two blinded openings for the bells and a parapet with battlements. The Lady Lever Memorial in the form of a loggia with three fields is richly decorated, buttresses, pinnacles, wall niches and a parapet.
Furnishing
The church can accommodate up to 800 people. The arcades are simple, supported by pillars without capitals . The interior was made by Hatch and Sons, and the wood carvings are by sculptor C. J. Allen ; the stone engravings were made by J. J. Millson. The floor of the church is made of black and white Italian marble , the pews, the screen walls and the altarpiece are made of English English oak , and the roof shingles are made of Canadian pitch pine . Most of the stained glass windows were supplied by Heaton, Butler and Bayne , including the window on the east side with its 16 openings, the window facing west and the windows in the south transept. Ervin Bossányi created two windows to the aisle from 1950 .
The four-manual organ was built by Henry Willis & Sons by Henry Willis II in 1904 and restored in 2006/07.
Mears and Stainbank cast eight bells in a ring in 1904.
The Lady Lever Memorial is the burial place of William Lever, who died in 1925, and his wife, who died in 1913. On it are bronze portraits made by Sir W. Goscombe John .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Homepage ( English ) Christ Church, Port Sunlight. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ↑ a b Christ Church, Port Sunlight [1075492] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England . Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ^ A b c d Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner [1971]: Cheshire ( English ) (= The Buildings of England). Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 , pp. 530-535.
- ↑ Cheshire Port Sunlight, Christ Church, (was Congregational), Church Drive (N04405) ( English ) British Institute of Organ Studies . Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ↑ Port Sunlight, Christ Church ( English ) Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
