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St George's Church, Thornton Hough

St George's Church, Thornton Hough
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St George's Church, Thornton Hough, also showing the covered entranceway
St George's Church, Thornton Hough is located in Merseyside
St George's Church, Thornton Hough
St George's Church, Thornton Hough
Location in Merseyside
53°19′16″N 3°02′43″W / 53.3211°N 3.0454°W / 53.3211; -3.0454Coordinates: 53°19′16″N 3°02′43″W / 53.3211°N 3.0454°W / 53.3211; -3.0454
OS grid reference SJ 305 810
Location Manor Road, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Merseyside
Country England
Denomination United Reformed Church
Website St George, Thornton Hough
History
Founder(s) Lord Leverhulme
Architecture
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II*
Designated 2 December 1986
Architect(s) J. Lomax-Simpson
Architectural type Church
Style Neo-Norman
Groundbreaking 1906
Completed 1907 (1907)
Specifications
Materials Sandstone, stone-slate roofs
Clergy
Minister(s) Revd John Oldershaw

St George's Church is in Manor Road, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active United Reformed Church, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

The church was designed by J. Lomax-Simpson and built in 1906–07 for Lord Leverhulme. It is in Neo-Norman style, reflecting Lord Leverhulme's Nonconformity.

St George's is constructed in sandstone with stone-slate roofs. The church has a cruciform plan consisting of a five-bay nave, north and south transepts, a chancel with an apse and a north porch, a south vestry, and a tower over the crossing. All the windows are round-headed; the windows along the sides of the church and at the west end have three lights, and those at the east end have two. The windows in the transepts are paired, with a round window above. At the west end are two gabled porches with round-headed entrances. The tower has angle buttresses, and in the bell stage are two-light bell openings and blind arcading. On top of the tower is a corbelled parapet and a recessed pyramidal roof. To the southeast of the tower is an octagonal stair turret with blind arcading and a pyramidal roof.


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