St Peter, Birkdale
St Peter, Birkdale
St Peter's is a Grade II Anglican parish church on St Peter's Road, Birkdale, Southport, in the Diocese of Liverpool.
- Location
- Birkdale, Merseyside
- Country
- England
- County
- Merseyside
- City / town
- Birkdale
- Address
- St Peter's Road, Birkdale, Merseyside, PR8 4BY
- Postcode
- PR8 4BY
- Built
- 1870-71; porch tower 1886-87; transepts and rebuilt chancel 1907
- Architect
- T D Barry and Sons
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter
- Diocese
- Liverpool
- Parish
- Birkdale St Peter
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Decorated Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Coursed sandstone rubble; slate roof in blue and purple bands
- Grid reference
- SD 333 155
- Opening hours
- Please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout. Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1870-71 by T. D. Barry and Sons, with a porch tower added in 1886-87 and transepts, vestries and a rebuilt chancel in 1907. The style is Decorated Gothic Revival. Fabric is coursed sandstone rubble under a slate roof in blue and purple bands. The plan is a nave with north and south aisles, a porch tower in front of the south aisle, north and south transepts, and a chancel with north and south vestries.
The square three-stage tower has angle buttresses, a north-west vice, pierced parapet, corner gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles. Low lean-to aisles have two-light windows with quatrefoil tracery; the nave clerestory is of pointed quatrefoils. There is a four-light west window and a five-light east window. Inside, six-bay arcades have double-chamfered arches on polished columns with carved capitals. The listing notes a good carved reredos and organ case. The church served Birkdale as the Victorian seaside town expanded.