St Paul's Church (Hooton)

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St Paul's Church is a church building in the village of Hooton , Cheshire in England . It is an active parish church of the Church of England in the Wirral South deanery within the Diocese of Chester . English Heritage has listed the church as Grade II * on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest since May 17, 1985 . The architectural historians Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard described the building in Buildings of England as "without a doubt one of the most spectacular churches in Cheshire".

history

The church was built between 1858 and 1862 to plans by James K. Colling for the Liverpool banker R. C. Naylor. The construction costs amounted to 5,000 pounds sterling (in today's prices £ 470,000).

architecture

St Paul's is built in a mixture of red and white ashlar and red natural stone. The roofs are slated . The floor plan is cross-shaped. The nave consists of a nave with three bays, a side aisle on the north and south sides and the two transepts and vestibules to the north and south. The aisles sit in the sanctuary as ambulatory continued. Above the crossing is the base of the dome, which rises above pendentife and is surmounted by a lantern on a short spire. A steeple with a spire is located above the southern vestibule , the western portal is designed in the Romanesque style, above which there is a rose window . Some of the other windows in the church are also based on 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 the early Gothic style. The baptismal font is made of dark green serpentine . It dates from 1851 and was awarded a gold medal at the Great Exhibition of that year.

supporting documents

  1. ^ St Paul, Hooton ( English ) Church of England . Retrieved May 21, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d Church of St Paul, Chester Road ( English ) In: The National Heritage List for England . English Heritage . 2011. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Nikolaus Pevsner , Edward Hubbard [1971]: Cheshire  (= The Buildings of England). Yale University Press , New Haven and London 2003, ISBN 0-300-09588-0 , pp. 241-242.

Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '26.2 "  N , 2 ° 57' 3.2"  W.