St Alban's Church, Wallasey

St Alban's was built in 1852–53, before which the local Roman Catholics met in a nearby school that was built in 1842. The church was designed by Stephen R. Eyre and Joseph Hansom. The foundation stone was laid on 8 June 1852, and the church opened in September 1853. It was originally planned to have two aisles, but the north aisle was omitted to reduce the cost. In the early 20th century the north wall suffered from subsidence and had to be rebuilt together with the chancel arch in 1913–14. The church was damaged in 1941 and lost some of its fittings, including an elaborately decorated altar, statues, and some stained glass. The interior of the church was re-ordered in 1952 when the…

The church is constructed in stone with roofs of hexagonal slates. It consists of a six-bay nave with a clerestory, a south aisle under a lean-to roof, a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry and a south Lady chapel, and a steeple at the northwest corner. The tower has angle buttresses, a west entrance above which is a niche, pairs of louvred bell openings, and a broach spire with lucarnes. On the east side of the tower is a canted stair tower with a small spire. At the west end of the nave is a four-light window with Decorated tracery. To the right of the window is a niche, and to the right of this is the three-light aisle west window. Along the south side of the aisle are two-light…