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Crosby United Reformed Church 
Crosby United Reformed ChurchLocation in Merseyside
Crosby United Reformed ChurchCoordinates: 53°29′29″N 3°01′30″W / 53.4914°N 3.0250°W OS grid reference SJ 321 999 Location Great Crosby, Liverpool, Merseyside Country England Denomination United Reformed Church Website Crosby United Reformed Church History Former name(s) Great Crosby Congregational Church Founded 1885 Architecture Status Church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 26 March 1973 Architect(s) Douglas & Fordham Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1897 Completed 1898 Specifications Materials Sandstone, green slate roofs Crosby United Reformed Church, originally Great Crosby Congregational Church, is on the corner of Eshe Road and Mersey Road in Great Crosby, a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[1] It is an active congregation of the United Reformed Church.[2] The authors of the Buildings of England series, referring to the architecture of the church, say "The whole is very satisfying".[3]
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History
The church was founded 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.[2] The church was designed by Douglas & Fordham and it was attached to the schoolroom.[3] In 1972 it became a United Reformed Church.[2]
Architecture
Exterior
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.[1] The windows are lancets, apart from larger windows in the north transept and at the west end. The latter window is flanked by corner buttresses, each of which is surmounted by an octagonal turret. To the north the church is linked to a large gabled hall which was originally the schoolroom. [3]
Interior
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.[3]
See also
- List of new churches by John Douglas
References
- ^ a b "Crosby United Reformed Church", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1257394, retrieved 15 May 2011
- ^ a b c About us, Crosby United Reformed Church, http://www.crosby-urc.org.uk/aboutus.html, retrieved 22 March 2008
- ^ a b c d Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 181, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1898
- 19th-century church buildings
- Protestant congregations established in the 19th century
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Merseyside
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Churches in Merseyside
- John Douglas buildings
- United Reformed churches in England
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