Christ Church, Port Sunlight
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Christ Church, Port Sunlight, from the southwest
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 Christ Church, Port Sunlight
Location in Merseyside
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| Coordinates: 53°21′13″N 2°59′43″W / 53.3535°N 2.9954°W | |
| Location | Church Drive date |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | United Reformed Church |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Founder(s) | William Lever |
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| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II* |
| Designated | 20 December 1965 |
| Architect(s) | William and Segar Owen |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1902 |
| Completed | 1904 |
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| Materials | Sandstone, stone-slate roof |
| Clergy | |
| Minister(s) | Revd Ian Smith |
Christ Church is in Church Drive, Port Sunlight, 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.
Port Sunlight was a model village built for the workers at the soap factory of Lever Brothers, founded by William Lever. Christ Church was built between 1902 and 1904, and was designed by William and Segar Owen. The church was paid for by William Lever. It was opened on 8 June 1904. Originally a Congregational church, it later became part of the United Reformed Church. In 1914 the Lever family vault was added as a memorial to the memory of Lady Lever. As a Millennium project in 2000, two new rooms were built into the aisles for the use of children and the youth of the church.
The church is constructed in red sandstone from Helsby in Cheshire, and has a stone-slate roof. It is in Gothic Revival style. The plan consists of a six-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles with lean-to roofs, a southwest porch, a double north transept, a south transept, a canted chancel, a southeast tower and, at the west end, the Lady Lever Memorial. The windows along the sides of the aisles and clerestory have three lights containing Perpendicular-style tracery. At the corners of the west end are canted projections topped by parapets. The west window has a four-centred head and contains nine lights. The transepts have gabled buttresses surmounted by pinnacles; there is an entrance in the south transept. There are also buttresses on the tower, which has two-light louvred bell openings, a cornice, and a traceried, embattled parapet. The Lady Lever Memorial is in the form of a loggia at the west end of the church. It is in three bays, and is richly decorated, with buttresses, pinnacles, niches, and an embattled parapet.
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