Built in 1831 as a chapel to Bebington: St. Andrew, which became
the district church for the township of Tranmere in 1842. Theboundaries of "The Chapelry District at Tranmere" were described in the London Gazette
of 10 May 1842:
"The district to comprize and consist of the township of Tranmere, which is
bounded on the east by the river Mersey ; on the north and north west by the
palish of Berkenhead [sic], in the said county; on the south west by the
parish of Woodchurch, in the said county ; and on the south by the township of
Higher Bebington, in the said parish of Bebington"
The district was affected by the following boundary changes:
1858 April 27 — reduced when part of the township of Tranmere was
transferred to
Tranmere: St. Paul.
1876 October 31 — reduced when part of the township of Tranmere was
transferred to Claughton: Christ Church.
1881 July 22 — reduced when the following part of the township of
Tranmere was transferred to Birkenhead: St. Paul:
"All that contiguous portion of the new parish of Saint Catherine Tranmere in
the county and diocese aforesaid which is bounded on the east by the new
parish of Saint Paul Birkenhead aforesaid, on the north by the particular
district of Saint John Birkenhead in the same county and diocese and on the
west and south by an imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides
the said particular district from the new parish of Saint Catherine Tranmere
aforesaid at the point where Happy Valley-road is joined by the road called or
known as Quarry Bank and extending thence first south-eastward and then
eastward along the middle of the last-named road for a distance of seven
chains or thereabouts to its junction with Whetstone-lane and with the
Woodlands-road and extending thence north-eastward along the middle of the
last-named road for a distance of three chains or thereabouts to its junction
with Hollybank-road and extending thence south-eastward along the middle of
the last-named road for a distance of four and a half chains or thereabouts to
its junction with Lowood-road and extending thence first north-eastward and
then south-eastward along the middle of the last-named road for a distance of
fifteen chains or thereabouts thereby passing in front of the house called or
known as Saint Paul's Parsonage to the junction of the said last-named road
with Clifton-road and extending thence south-westward along the middle of the
last-named road for a distance of eleven chains or thereabouts to its junction
with Whetstone-lane aforesaid and extending thence south-eastward along the
middle of the last-named lane for a distance of six chains or thereabouts to
its junction with the road which leads to the north-western end of Holt
Hill-terrace and extending thence northward along the middle of the
last-described road for a distance of two and a half chains or thereabouts to
the north-western end of Holt Hill-terrace aforesaid and extending thence
north-eastward and in a direct line for a distance of eighteen chains or
thereabouts across certain open ground commonly known as the Gas Works Fields
to the point near the gasometers at the southern end of Thomas-street where
the boundary dividing the said new parish of Saint Catherine Tranmere from the
new parish of Saint Paul Birkenhead aforesaid meets the boundary dividing the
last-named new parish from the parochial chapelry of Saint Mary Birkenhead in
the county of Chester and in the diocese of Chester aforesaid"
1883 March 6 — reduced when part of the township of Tranmere was
transferred to Lower Tranmere: St. Luke.
1902 March 7 — reduced when part of the township of Tranmere was
transferred to Prenton: St. Stephen.
