Congregational Church, Hoylake
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{{Infobox church | name = Congregational Church, Hoylake| fullname = | image = Hoylake Chapel - IMG 0820.JPG| imagesize = | imagealt = | caption = West end of the Congregational Church, Hoylake| pushpin map = Merseyside| pushpin map alt = | pushpin mapsize = 200 | pushpin label position = | map caption = Location in Merseyside| location = Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside| country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.3900|-3.1805|region:GB_type:landmark|display=title}} | osgraw = SJ 216 888| denomination = Independent Evangelical| churchmanship = | membership = | attendance = | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20011018141730/http://www.hoylakechapel.org.uk/index.html Hoylake chapel] | former name = | bull date = | founded date = | founder = | dedication = | dedicated date = | consecrated date = | cult = | relics = | events = | past bishop = | people = | status = Independent| functional status = Active| heritage designation = Grade II| designated date = 28 January 1991| architect = Douglas and Minshull| architectural type = Church| style = Gothic Revival| groundbreaking = 1905| completed date = 1906| construction cost = | closed date = | demolished date = | capacity = | length = | width = | width nave = | height = | diameter = | other dimensions = | floor count = | floor area = | materials = Brick and sandstone
Slate roofs}}
The Congregational Church is in Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.{{NHLE |num= 1258515|desc= United Reformed Church, Hoylake|access-date= 20 March 2012 |mode=cs2}}
History
The church was built in 1905–06, and designed by the Chester architects Douglas and Minshull. It was originally a Congregational church.{{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Clare |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =Yale University Press| year =2011| orig-year=1971| location =New Haven and London| page =406 |isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }} As of 2017 it is an independent evangelical church now known as Hope Church Wirral.{{Citation | url = http://www.hope-church.co.uk/history.html| title = History| access-date = 20 March 2012| publisher = Hoylake Chapel}}
Architecture
=Exterior=
Constructed in red brick with sandstone dressings and standing on a sandstone plinth, the church is roofed with Westmorland slates. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a southwest porch, north and south transepts, and an apse at the east end. It originally had a flèche over the crossing, but this was damaged in the Second World War, and has not been replaced. At the west end is a six-light window containing Perpendicular tracery. This is flanked by buttresses, and on the corners are crocketed pinnacles. The clerestory contains three-light windows, and along the sides of the aisles are lancet windows. In the apse are two and three-light windows.
=Interior=
The interior of the church is clad in sandstone, and has a hammerbeam roof. The floor at the east end of the church is in black and white marble. The font consists of a curved bowl on four large buttresses. The furnishings were made by James Merritt, and include simple benches and an elaborate pulpit. The stained glass in the windows at the east end, dating from 1922, is by H. G. Hiller, and there are two windows in the aisles by A. J. Davies dating from the 1920s. The three-manual pipe organ was made by Hope-Jones, and subsequently cleaned and altered by Norman and Beard.{{Citation | url = http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04394| title = Cheshire (Merseyside), Hoylake, Congregational Church (N04394)| access-date = 20 March 2012| publisher = British Institute of Organ Studies}}
See also
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Category:Churches completed in 1906
Category:20th-century church buildings in England
Category:Grade II listed churches in Merseyside
Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Merseyside
Category:Churches in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Category:John Douglas buildings