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Victoria Road
Built in 1856 as a chapel to Wallasey: St. Hilary. In 1861 it became a district church for parts of the townships of Liscard and Wallasey (previously served by Wallasey: St. Hilary). The boundaries of "The District Chapelry of Saint James, New Brighton" were described in the London Gazette on 15 October 1861:
"All that part of the parish of Wallasey, in the county of Chester, and diocese of Chester, which is situate to the east of an imaginary line commencing at a point in the middle of Marsden-lane, opposite to a boundary stone inscribed 'N. B. St. J. D. C., 1861, No. 1,' and placed on the eastern side of such lane, opposite to the western end of the fence which divides the close numbered 237 on the tithe commutation map of the said parish of Wallasey, and on the map hereunto annexed, from the close numbered 238 on the same maps, and extending thence, first north-westward and then north-eastward along the middle of the said lane, as far as a point opposite to the middle of the southern end of Mount-road, and
extending thence in a direction, generally northward, to and along the middle of such road to its northern extremity, and extending thence westward to the fence dividing the close numbered 484 on the said maps, from the premises numbered 486 and the closed numbered 485, on the same maps, and extending thence northward along the middle of such fence to its extremity, and continuing thence in the last-mentioned direction, and in a straight line to the northern boundary of the said parish of Wallasey. And which said part of the same parish is situate to the north of another imaginary line commencing at the first-mentioned point in the middle of Marsden-lane, opposite to the boundary stone aforesaid, and extending thence eastward to such boundary stone, and continuing thence in the same direction, and in a straight line across the close numbered 237 as aforesaid, to the middle of the western end of the fence which divides the close numbered 236 on the said maps from the closes numbered respectively 238A, and 277 on the same maps, and extending
thence south-eastward along the middle of the last-mentioned fence, and of the fence which divides the close numbered 279 on the said maps from the close numbered 276 on the same maps, to the middle of the western end of a certain occupation road leading from the close numbered 279 as aforesaid, to Rake-lane, and extending thence first in the last-mentioned direction, along the middle of such occupation road, and then north-eastward along the middle of the Rake-lane, as far as a point in the same lane opposite to the middle of the western end of Zigzag-lane, and extending thence in the lastmentioned direction to and along the middle of the last-named lane, and along the middle of the footpath leading therefrom to the River Mersey, as far as a point opposite to a boundary stone placed on the southern side of the same footpath, and inscribed 'N. B. St. J. D. C., 1861, No. 2,' and extending thence in a straight line eastward, to the eastern boundary of the said parish of Wallasey. And also all that part of the same parish of Wallasey, which is comprised within the island known as 'Rock Fort'."'
The district was affected by the following boundary changes:
C = Christenings (Baptisms) ; M = Marriages ; B = Burials ; BTs = Bishop's Transcripts
| Original Registers | C 1856–1920 ; M 1860–1934 — Cheshire Record Office (P 140) C from 1921 ; M from 1934 — Church |
| Microfilm Copies | C 1856–1920 ; M 1860–1934 — Cheshire Record Office C 1856–1888 — Family History Society of Cheshire ; Wirral Archives |
| Copies and Indexes | M 1860–1946 — Cheshire BMD (WR:C8) |
| Explanatory Notes | Index of Churches |
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