St Luke’s Church, Poulton

• Carving : Earp Hobbs and Miller, of Manchester

ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, POULTON. - Yesterday this church was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester (Thursday, the 18th inst.) It was formerly a mission‑church of the parish of Wallasey; but we understand it has been constituted as the parish church of the growing district of Poulton. The extensions to the original nave and aisle have assumed the form of two transepts and chancel, organ‑chamber, with school-room and vestries below, which, together with new oak seating throughout the old and new part of the church, gives a total accommodation of 604. Advantage was taken of the fall of the ground to obtain the schoolroom, 12 feet high, below the transepts, capable of accommodating 200, the part below the chancel being utilised as the choir‑vestry. A staircase gives communication from the schoolroom and vestry to the church, and is continued to a level over the church porch, where the clergy vestry is situated. The church is faced with Ruabon brick and Runcorn stone, and roofed with Westmorland green slates. The oak seating and choir stalls were designed by the architect: carving of the stalls and reredos is by Messrs Earp Hobbs and Miller, of Manchester; the contractor of the work being Mr Peter Rothwell, of Birkenhead; Mr J. Lindsay Grant, lecturer on architecture at the Manchester School of Technology, is the architect. The cost of the extension was £3,000. [The Building News 19 October 1906. Page 543]

Reference           The Building News 19 October 1906 page 543.