January 2009 Archives

THE series of churches pictured in the past continues this week in Memories.
Places of worship in the photographs include Crosby Congregational Church, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Waterloo, St Mary's Church in Little Crosby and Sefton Church.
The former Crosby Congregational Church, pictured on the corner of Mersey Road and Eshe Road, has now become Crosby United Reformed Church.

It is one of a number of photographs submitted by Tom Heath and it is not clear when it was taken.
The church was formed in 1885 to serve Crosby and Blundellsands, which was growing in population and within ten years the congregation grew to up to 300.
Mr A Brown Paton, who was a member of the church, laid the first foundation stone in 1897.
In 1972 the Congregational Churches in England united with The English Presbyterian Church to form The United Reformed Church in England.

St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Crosby Road South in Waterloo is also pictured, possibly during the Victorian era.
The church was founded in 1855, the old building was developed in 1857 and the cornerstone for a new church building was laid in 1906.
Building work started on St Mary's Church in Little Crosby in 1845 and it was consecrated in 1847.

Sefton Church, the only Grade I listed building in the borough, is also pictured although the date of the photograph is unknown.
It was first built in 1170 as a private chapel of the Molyneux family and some stones from that era still exist.

The tower was built in around 1320 and the church was completed in the early 1500s.
Anyone with photographs or memories of churches in the area is asked to send them to Lyndsay Young, Crosby Herald, 26-32 Tulketh Street, Southport, PR8 1BT, email lyndsay.young@liverpool.com or call 0151 282 8117.