Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
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Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
Image: © Tiger Taken: 5 Dec 2010
This church at the corner of Hoylake and Worcester Roads was designed by Francis Xavier Velarde and opened in 1959. Pevsner's collaborator Edward Hubbard found the interior with its apsidal sanctuary "not without merit" but was nonplussed by the exterior with its "overscaled toy fort tower". Sadly, in 2006 the Diocese of Shrewsbury decided to close the church and two years later it was put up for auction. Plans to convert the tall nave into a school for trapeze artists were blocked by restrictive covenants forbidding use of the building for non-religious purposes. Holy Cross is listed Grade II - see Taking Stock https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/birkenhead-holy-cross/
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Image Location
Latitude
53.402587
Longitude
-3.066963