All Saints Church, Speke | |
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Coordinates: 53°20′38″N 2°51′28″W / 53.3440°N 2.8579°W | |
OS grid reference | SJ 430 834 |
Location | Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside |
Country | England |
Denomination | Anglican |
Website | All Saints, Speke |
History | |
Consecrated | 21 June 1876 |
Architecture | |
Groundbreaking | 1872 |
Completed | 1875 |
Specifications | |
Materials | Stone, tiled roofs |
Administration | |
Deanery | Liverpool South Childwall |
Archdeaconry | Liverpool |
Diocese | Liverpool |
Province | York |
Clergy | |
Rector | Revd Gillian Pinnington |
Vicar(s) | Revd Gillian Pinnington |
Curate(s) | Katie Miller |
Laity | |
Reader(s) | Geoff Pinnington |
All Saints Church is in Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, standing at the junction of Hale Road and Speke Church Road. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Liverpool South Childwall, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool. Its benefice is united with that of St Aiden, Speke. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
The church was built between 1872 and 1875, and designed by John Loughborough Pearson. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 21 June 1876. The church was enlarged in the 1930s; this included a new vestry, offices, and the installation of electric lighting.
All Saints is constructed in snecked red stone, with a tiled roof. Its architectural style includes Decorated details, including Geometric tracery in some of the windows. Its plan consists of a nave, a north aisle, a north transept, a chancel with a north vestry, and a southwest steeple. On the northwest side of the tower is a stair turret, and the entrance to the church is on the south side of the tower. Above the entrance are three lancet windows, and above them, the bell openings have two lights. The tower is surmounted by a broach spire with lucarnes. At the west end of the church, the nave has a four-light window, and the aisle window has two lights. The windows along the side of the nave have three lights, and those along the aisle have two lights. The east window has five lights; this window is flanked by gabled buttresses. In the transept is a three-light window.