the parish in the nineteenth century, with services held for the school at the church and members of the St Hildeburgh's Ministry Team leading worship in the school. The parish is linked to the local Royal National Lifeboats Institution (RNLI) lifeboats, with the Vicar being the lifeboat chaplain. There are links with many of the care and residential homes situated in Hoylake. There are a considerable number of community activities hosted by St Hildeburgh's, mostly held in the St Hildeburgh's Church Centre (a modern building located behind the church). These activities include a weekly community "drop in" on Tuesday mornings, a group for young people called "Voyagers", a weekly play and worship session on Wednesdays for pre-school age children and their parents/carers, a monthly luncheon club for senior citizens, and soup and sandwich lunches for care home residents, their families, carers and friends. Architecture Exterior The church is constructed in red brick and terracotta with tiled roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles under lean-to roofs, a chancel with a north organ loft and vestry, a south chapel, a northwest porch, and a west baptistry. The porch is timber-framed on a brick base. Along the sides of the aisles are alternating paired and triple lancet windows. The windows along the clerestory are octofoils. At the west end are gabled buttresses that rise above the level of the roof. In the baptistry are three square windows, four lancets, and an octofoil at the top. The east window consists of a central cross flanked by quatrefoils. The chapel has a caned end, lancet windows, and a bell in an iron frame. Interior Inside the church the five-bay arcades are carried on round piers of polished granite. There is a low chancel screen, and a richly carved octagonal timber pulpit with a tester. Between the chancel and the chapel is a three-bay arcade with a parclose screen. The timber reredos is richly carved, and includes a panel in tile and mosaic of the Good Shepherd. On the north wall of the chancel are three painted panels, and in the south wall is a sedilia with crocketed gables. The font is octagonal and is carved with the symbols of the four evangelists. Some of the stained glass windows are by Powell's, including the east window, which is a war memorial to members of the Royal Liverpool