Christ Church, Toxteth Park

Christ Church, Toxteth Park
Christ Church, Toxteth Park, from the southeast
Christ Church, Toxteth Park Location in Merseyside
Coordinates: 53°23′05″N 2°56′55″W / 53.3848°N 2.9486°W / 53.3848; -2.9486
OS grid reference	SJ 370 860
Location	Linnet Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Christ Church, Toxteth Park
History
Founded	1867
Founder(s)	George Horsfall
Consecrated	27 April 1871
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	19 June 1985
Architect(s)	Culshaw and Sumners
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1867
Completed	1871
Construction cost	Nearly £20,000
Specifications
Materials	Stone, slate roofs
Administration
Parish	Christ Church, Toxteth Park
Deanery	Wavertree and Toxteth
Archdeaconry	Liverpool
Diocese	Liverpool
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Canon David Allan Parry

Christ Church, Toxteth Park, is in Linnet Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wavertree and Toxteth, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool. Its benefice is united with that of St Michael, Aigburth. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

Christ Church was built in 1867–71, designed by Culshaw and Sumners, and paid for by George Horsfall. The church cost about £20.000 to build (equivalent to £1,680,000 in 2015), and was consecrated by the Rt Revd William Jacobson, bishop of Chester, on 27 April 1871.

The church is constructed in stone with slate roofs. Its architectural style is Decorated. The plan consists of a six-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a canted chancel with a three-bay vestry to the south and a two-bay porch to the north, and a north tower with a broach spire. The tower has angle buttresses, three-light louvred bell openings, the middle light on each side having a balcony carried on angel corbels. On the tower is a broach spire, the broaches being bowed. At the west end is a five-light window containing Geometric tracery. The windows along the sides of the aisles have three lights and are placed between buttresses. The windows along the clerestory are lunettes with pointed arches. The east window has three lights. The porch has a hipped roof and entrances on the north and east sides. The vestry also has a hipped roof, and is approached by steps.