Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool

{{Infobox church | name = Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool| fullname = | image = 3 Princes Road, St Margarets frontage.JPG| imagesize = | imagealt = | caption = West front of the church| pushpin map = United Kingdom Liverpool Central| pushpin map alt = | pushpin mapsize = 200 | pushpin label position = | map caption = Location in Liverpool| location = Prince's Road, Toxteth, Liverpool| country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.3954|-2.9657|region:GB_type:landmark|display=title}} | osgraw = SJ 359,892| denomination = Anglican | churchmanship = Liberal Anglo-Catholic

| website = [http://stmargaretofantioch.org.uk/ St Margaret, Liverpool] | former name = | bull date = | founded date = | founder = Robert Horsfall| dedication = St Margaret of Antioch| dedicated date = | consecrated date = | cult = | relics = | events = | past bishop = | people = | status = Parish church| functional status = Active| heritage designation = Grade II*| designated date = 12 July 1966| architect = G. E. Street| architectural type = Church| style = Gothic Revival (Decorated)| groundbreaking = 1868| completed date = | construction cost = | closed date = | demolished date = | capacity = | length = | width = | width nave = | height = | diameter = | other dimensions = | floor count = | floor area = | materials = Brick, stone dressings, slate roof| parish = St Margaret, Toxteth| deanery = Toxteth and Wavertree| archdeaconry = Liverpool| diocese = Liverpool| province = York| rector = | vicar = | curate = | priest = The Revd Canon Bob Lewis | asstpriest = | minister = | assistant = | honpriest = | deacon = | seniorpastor = | pastor = | abbot = | chaplain = | reader = | organistdom = | director = | organist = | organscholar = | chapterclerk = | laychapter = | warden = | flowerguild = | musicgroup = | parishadmin = | serversguild = | logo = | logosize = }}

The Church of St Margaret of Antioch is in Prince's Road, Toxteth, Liverpool, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the deanery of Toxteth and Wavertree.{{citation |url= http://www.achurchnearyou.com/toxteth-st-margaret/|title= Toxteth: St Margaret, Toxteth|access-date=14 April 2013 |publisher= Church of England}} The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE |num= 1292876|desc= Church of St Margaret, Liverpool|accessdate= 14 April 2013|mode=cs2}}

History

The church was built in 1868–69 and designed by G. E. Street. The architectural style of the church is Decorated. It was paid for by Robert Horsfall, a local stockbroker and Anglo-Catholic. In 1924–26 the Jesus Chapel, designed by Hubert B. Adderley, was added to the north of the church. The architectural style of the church is Decorated.

The church became "the centre of Anglo-Catholicism in 19th-century Liverpool".{{Citation | last = Sharples | first = Joseph| last2 = Pollard| first2 = Richard| year = 2004| title = Liverpool| series = Pevsner Architectural Guides| publication-place = New Haven and London| publisher = Yale University Press| pages = 245–247| isbn = 0-300-10258-5}} In 1887, the vicar, James Bell Cox, was imprisoned under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.{{sfn|Simpson|1933|p= 51}}

Architecture

=Exterior=

St Margaret's is constructed in common brick, with dressings in red brick and stone, and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave and chancel forming a single vessel, the nave being flanked by aisles. There is no clerestory. On the roof, at the division of the nave and chancel, is a timber bellcote. In the central part of the west end of the church are two three-light windows, with a buttress between them and on each side. Above the central buttress is a canopied niche containing a statue of St Margaret of Antioch. Over this is a rose window. To the sides of the central part are the aisles under lean-to roofs; each has a doorway with a rose window above. A passage leads from the north side of the church to the vicarage.

=Interior=

Inside the church are six-bay arcades carried on marble piers with bands of alternating colours. The chancel is at a higher level, and is separated from the nave by a low marble wall with central iron gates. In the chancel are a piscina and a sedilia. On the north side of the chancel is a two-bay arcade leading to the Jesus Chapel. The font is circular, carried on six columns, and stands on a hexagonal base. The pulpit is in gilded wood, and is decorated with busts of saints. In the chancel floor is a brass to Robert Horsfall. There is much painted decoration on the walls, most of it by Maddox and Pearce. Much of the stained glass is by Clayton and Bell. The glass in the west window of the south aisle is by Percy Bacon Brothers. At the east end of the church are two windows, replaced after the Second World War, which were designed by Gerald E. R. Smith and H. L. Pawle, and made in the A. K. Nicholson Studio. In the Jesus chapel is an ornate polychrome reredos. The two-manual pipe organ was made in 1869 by Henry Willis.{{Citation | url = http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N01667| title = Lancashire (Merseyside), Liverpool, St. Margaret, Princes Road, Toxteth (N01667)| access-date = 14 April 2013| publisher = British Institute of Organ Studies}}

File:Nave, Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool 2.jpg|Nave looking east

File:Pulpit of Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool.jpg|Pulpit

File:Chancel rail of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool 1.jpg|Chancel railings

File:Lady Chapel, Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool.jpg|Altar, Lady Chapel

File:Font, Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool.jpg|Font

File:Stained glass, Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool 12.jpg|Stained-glass window

References

Sources

{{cite book|last=Simpson|first=W. J. Sparrow|author-link = W. J. Sparrow Simpson | editor1-first=Norman Powell |editor1-last=Williams|editor1-link = N. P. Williams|editor2-first= Charles|editor2-last= Harris|title=Northern Catholicism: centenary studies in the Oxford and parallel movements|year=1933|publisher=SPCK|chapter=The revival from 1845 to 1933|url=https://archive.org/details/northerncatholicism/page/n1/mode/2up|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/northerncatholicism/page/n49/mode/2up}}

Church of St Margaret of Antioch

Category:Grade II* listed churches in Merseyside

Church of St Margaret of Antioch

Category:Church of England church buildings in Merseyside

Category:G. E. Street buildings

Category:Churches completed in 1869

Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in England

Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Merseyside

Category:1869 establishments in England

Category:19th-century Church of England church buildings

Category:Anglo-Catholic church buildings in Merseyside

Category:English churches dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch