Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST AMBROSE (101893)

1. 5186 WEST CLIFF ROAD Church of St Ambrose SZ 0790 8/75 B 2. 1898-1900, C Hodgson Fowler. Big church of Perpendicular style proportions and Decorated style tracery, all in smooth golden ashlar with greenish slate roof. 4-storey north-west porch-tower added 1907-8: traceried panelling with gablet over door, paired 2-light belfry windows with transom, panelled battlements, polygonal turrets over corner buttresses. 7-bay nave (westernmost bay very short) 2-light aisle windows, 3-light clerestory, arcades with quatrefoil piers and double-chamfered arches, king-post nave roof with stone wall shafts, boarded wagon roof to chancel with criss-cross ribs between timber arch-braces. Chancel arch on foliage capitals. South chapel with 2 light traceried entrance arch and 2-bay arcade to chancel. North side of chancel has higher 3-bay blind arcade embracing clerestory, transeptal organ chamber to north, north-east vestry under separate gable. 5-light east window, other chancel windows and nave aisle windows all have glass by Burlison and Grylls, 6-light west window by Powells. Large reredos in rectangular frame by Temple Moore, 1914, Crucifixion with 3 tiers of saints. Elaborate font, also by Temple Moore, 1914: deep polygonal bowl with foliage carving on sides (8 columns), high openwork timber cover with spire. Pulpit of wrought-iron on polychromatic marble base. Rood screen of wrought iron. Listing NGR: SZ0714090871

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Sep 13 2010 3:31AM