IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Hoylake Road, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 7BZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Hoylake Road, CH41 7BZ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (12 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
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Tower of Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
What Edward Hubbard describes as the "overscaled toy fort" tower of Francis Xavier Velarde's now-abandoned 1959 Image presents an almost Mediterranean aspect against the bright blue sky of a bitter winter morning.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 5 Dec 2010
0.03 miles
4
Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
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/
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 5 Dec 2010
0.04 miles
5
Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
A view from Worcester Road showing the apsidal chancel end of the abandoned church, designed by Francis Xavier Velarde, opened in 1959 and closed in 2006.
Holy Cross is listed Grade II - see Taking Stock https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/birkenhead-holy-cross/
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 5 Dec 2010
0.04 miles
6
Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
Now boarded up awaiting alternative use.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
0.04 miles
7
Holy Cross Church, Birkenhead
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/
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 5 Dec 2010
0.05 miles
