Congregational Church, Great Crosby

Congregational Church, Great Crosby is on the corner of Eshe Road and Mersey Road in Great Crosby, a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (gbmapping|SJ321999). It is a Grade II listed building.cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=463931 |title=Images of England: Crosby United Reformed Church |accessdate=2008-03-22 |publisher=English Heritage ] It is an active United Reformed Church.cite web |url=http://www.crosby-urc.org.uk/aboutus.html |title=About us |accessdate=2008-03-22 |publisher= United Reformed Church, Crosby]

History

The church was formed in 1885 and initially met in a schoolroom. On 22 May 1897 the foundation stone for the present church was laid and the first service was held on 15 September 1898. The church was designed by Douglas and Fordham and it was attached to the schoolroom.cite book | last =Pollard| first =Richard | authorlink = | coauthors =Nikolaus Pevsner | title =The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West |edition= | publisher =Yale University Press | date =2006 | location =New Haven & London | pages =181 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0 300 10910 5 ] In 1972 it became a United Reformed Church.

tructure

The church is built in snecked red sandstone with green slate roofs in Gothic style. Its plan consists of a nave, low north and south aisles, a southeast porch, large north and south transepts, a west chancel, and a southwest choir vestry with the organ-house above it. Over the nave is a flèche.

Fittings and furniture

The roof is a hammerbeam. The reredos consists of a First World War memorial dated 1920 with gesso work by Joseph Lawton. Forming part of this memorial is the glass in the east window which is by Shrigley and Hunt. In the north aisle two windows contain stained glass by Edward Frampton.

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