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OS grid reference	SJ 216 888
Location	Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside
Country	England
Denomination	Independent Evangelical
Website	Hoylake chapel
History
Status	Independent
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	28 January 1991
Architect(s)	Douglas and Minshull
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1905
Completed	1906
Specifications
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.

History

The church was built in 1905–06, and designed by the Chester architects Douglas and Minshull. It was originally a Congregational church. As of 2017 it is an independent evangelical church now known as Hope Church Wirral.

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.