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Wirral Christian Centre, on Balls Road,Birkenhead, formerly Oxton Congregational Church, grade 2 listed
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Wirral Christian Centre, on Balls Road,Birkenhead, formerly Oxton Congregational Church, grade 2 listed
Nothing to do with churches I know but Balls Road is also home to the vasectomy clinic. Strange but true.
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Why are they moving St Lukes ?
:) good picture GD.
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St Benedicts Church of England, Heyworth Street stood on its West Side between Rupert Lane and Kepler Street, captured here on 3rd July 1967.
Paul McCartney's dad, Jim was born on 7th July (same as Ringo) but in 1902. He was baptised here 2 months later.
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Third Christ Science Church on Upper Parliament Street,up for sale
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Cathedral from St James Mount
the part of the church just behing the phone box is still standing ...now its an electricity sub-stationQuote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Ahh,now I can place it!:)
Fine pics again GD. Nice one fella.:handclap:Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Here's a pic of Christ church what used to be in Norris Green.
Can't say I've ever seen much activity at this church,even when I lived almost opposite!
Anyone know what's there now ?Quote:
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Do you mean this ? -Quote:
Originally Posted by robbo176
yes all the bill posters have been cleaned off & it looks good.....for a sub station :)Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
I never put two and two together that it was originally part of the church :rolleyes:
I can't quite remember the church, but vaguely aware that there was one located somewhere by there.
I'm wondering now where the old cinema fitted in near to that church . . . there was a cinema right by there wasn't there ??
The cinema was to the left and became this.
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Not quite Ged, the cinema is the smaller building just to the left. The Everton Picture Palace.
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St Lukes
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St Vincent de Pauls R C church on Upper Fredrick St
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Greek Othodox church on Berkley St
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St Margarets R C church with the Jewish Synagogue next to it on Princes Rd
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The old Welsh Presbyterian Church on Princes Road
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St Brides Church of England on Percy St
All taken from the cathedral tower today, it was freezing in the high wind
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Excellent photos gregsdad. I thought they were from a helicoper for a minute there. Surperb stuff.
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Great photos guys.
Absolutely fab pic's there Joe! I'd love to have a look around the Greek orthodox churchQuote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Yup I will second that.:handclap:Quote:
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Richmond Baptist on Breck rd has been empty and neglected for a long time. It's now up for sale. I can't see anyone taking over those premises for anything as it is such a huge place. It's in a very poor state of neglect and I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually gets demolished.
I always think they were very optimistic,when it came to projected congregation size,even then,as there are/were, so many of these church's around,with none!!Quote:
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St James in the City,on Upper Parliament St and Princes Rd built in 1774,closed in 1971 and reopened in 2009.
For a while,I thought this would be demolished for flats!Great to see it in use again!Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
We passed a church yesterday on Smithdown rd that has been turned into flats :eek: It just looks strange to me.
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St Philip Neri church on St Catharine St with it`s sculpture of the last supper on the outer wall
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The garden of St Philip Neri church.It must have been peaceful with the water features having water in
Great pic' Joe,fantastic Byzantine style architecture,possibly connected with St.Philip Neri's background? Isn't this used for another purpose,now? And I always wondered if those odd bits/pillars were remnants of another building!Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
St Philip Neri church mosaics feature here.
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Thanks Ged, great mosaics displayed there ... ... I really enjoyed going through the Little Italy site. :handclap:
The church was built in 1920,the sculpture on the front about 1945 by Tom Murphy, not the Tom Murphy thats currently doing local work now.
Has it closed now ?
It was the university chaplaincy with tea and biscuits served to the students after mass on sundays.
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St Werberghs and St Laurences church in Birkenhead,opened in 1837,with it`s war memorial and stained glass window to the Kearney family
Whether one is religious and a believer or not, I find the architecture of these buildings, the scale, smell, aura and biblical statues and paintings fantastic.
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St Jame`s church in New Brighton
To echo what Ged has said - and I'm not a believer - I love these buildings, I love the scale and architecture of them.
St. Monica's in Bootle is one of my favourites - Art Deco at it's best!
I'll try and photograph some this week myself.
Somebody asked what is on the site of Christ Church (Sedgemoor Road) in Norris Green. It's a new development of houses finished around Christmas time and called Christ Church Close.
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Our Lady Mount Carmel R C church on High Park St,built 1878
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St Peters Wesleyan Methodist church on High Park St,1878,undergoing a conversion
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St Gabriels C of E Church on the corner of Tate St,built 1884
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St Malachys R C church on Beaufort St,1893
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St Francis of Assisi on Earp St ,Garston,built 1905
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Garston Baptist church on the corner of Earp St and Bennett St
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Garston Reading Rooms and community centre,Garston, this qualifies as a church as it spent an early part of it`s life as a church
one of garstons oldest buildings the reading rooms, cheers Joe :)