Founded in 1851 as the district church for the township of Oxton, and part of
the township of Claughton with
Grange (previously served by Woodchurch: Holy Cross).
The district was affected by the following boundary changes:
1876 October 31 — reduced when parts of the townships of Claughton with Grange and Oxton were transferred to Claughton: Christ Church.
1902 March 7 — reduced when part of the township of Oxton was transferred
to Prenton: St. Stephen.
1911 January 24 — reduced when part of the township of Oxton was
transferred to Birkenhead: St. Bede.
1948 February 27 — reduced when the following area was transferred to Prenton: St. Stephen:
"All that portion of the said parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, bounded upon the
south east, the south and the west by the said parish of Saint Stephen,
Prenton, and upon the remaining side, that is to say, upon the north west by
an imaginary line commencing on the boundary which divides the said parish of
Saint Stephen, Prenton, from the said parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, at a
point in the middle of Woodchurch Road where that road is crossed by Storeton
Road and extending thence north eastwards along the middle of Woodchurch Road
to the boundary which divides the said parish of Saint Saviour, Oxton, from
the said parish of Saint Stephen, Prenton."
Church Records
C = Christenings (Baptisms) ; M = Marriages ; B = Burials ; BTs = Bishop's Transcripts
