| St Oswald's Church, Bidston | |
 St Oswald's Church, Bidston, from the south
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| 53°24′09″N 3°04′02″W / 53.4024°N 3.0671°WCoordinates: 53°24′09″N 3°04′02″W / 53.4024°N 3.0671°W | |
| Location | Bidston, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside |
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| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | St Oswald's, Bidston |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Designated | 29 July 1950 |
| Architect(s) | W. & J. Hay, G. E. Grayson |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic , Gothic Revival |
| Completed | 1882 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Coursed and squared rubble Westmorland slate roof with ridge cresting |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Bidston |
| Deanery | Birkenhead |
| Archdeaconry | Chester |
| Diocese | Chester |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Rev Ron Iveson |
| Curate(s) | Rev Roger Newton |
| Assistant priest | Rev Chris Jones |
| Laity | |
| Reader | Rob Morsley, Jayne Morsley, Arthur Sinnot |
| Churchwarden(s) | Debbie Bayley, Glyn Salmon |
St Oswald's Church, Bidston is in Bidston, an area of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England (grid reference SJ283903). It is a Grade II listed building.[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Birkenhead.[2]
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History
The original church dates back to the 13th century.[3] The tower was built in 1520.[4] The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1855–56 by W. & J. Hay in Gothic Revival style. An extension was made to the chancel in 1882 by G. E. Grayson.[5]
Architecture
Structure
The church is built from coursed and squared rubble in large blocks with a roof of Westmorland slate with ridge cresting. Its plan consists of a west tower, a nave, north and south aisles with gable roofs, a south porch, and a chancel.[1] Heraldic shields over the west door date it between 1504 and 1521.[5] The tower is in three stages with angle buttresses and an embattled parapet.[1]
Fittings and furniture
In the chancel is a sedilia dated 1882. The reredos is a mosaic depicting The Last Supper by Salviati over which is a wooden canopy frieze.[1] The stained glass includes windows by Morris & Co., Robert Anning Bell, H. Gustave Hiller, H. Hughes, Powell and Frank O. Salisbury.[5] The two-manual organ dating from 1929 is by Henry Willis & Sons.[6] The ring of six bells is by Robert Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, five of which are dated 1868 and the other 1882.[7] The parish registers begin in 1679 and the churchwardens' accounts in 1767.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Images of England: Church of St Oswald, Birkenhead, English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=1&id=389234, retrieved 11 January 2008
- ^ Churches in the Diocese, Diocese of Chester, http://www.chester.anglican.org/churches.asp, retrieved 4 July 2009
- ^ Salter, Mark (1995), The Old Parish Churches of Cheshire, Malvern: Folly Publications, p. 24, ISBN 1871731232
- ^ a b Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 51–54
- ^ a b c Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard (2003) [1971], The Buildings of England: Cheshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 95, ISBN 0 300 09588 0
- ^ Bidston St. Oswald, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04426, retrieved 9 August 2008
- ^ Bidston S Oswald, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Bidston&Submit=++Go++&DoveID=BIDSTON, retrieved 9 August 2008
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