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The sign on the cross says "TO THE GLORY OF GOD THESE FRAGMENTS OF A SAXON CROSS EVIDENCE OF A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN BROMBOROUGH A THOUSAND YEARS AGO WERE RE-ERECTED BY THE BROMBOROUGH SOCIETY IN 1958." However, other sources state this is a Viking cross. Personally, I think it looks Celtic.

St Barnabas' Church at Bromborough is a Grade II listed building. It was built between 1862 and 1864. The first church on the site was built in 928 adjacent to a monastery. This church was demolished in 1828 and replaced on the same site by another church. This church was again replaced by the present church.

Plaque in the graveyard of St Barnabas' Church This marks the position of the chancel of the Anglo Saxon church which was demolished in 1828 to make way for the new building which was itself replaced in 1864 by the present church.

St Barnabas, in the centre of Bromborough village, is the Church of England parish church for Bromborough. The first church on the site of today's church was built 928AD, adjacent to a monastery founded 912AD, probably by Aethelflaeda, the Lady of the Mercians and daughter of Alfred the Great. This Anglo-Saxon church was demolished in 1828, being replaced on the same site by another church which was itself replaced by the present church in 1864. A carved Anglo-Saxon preaching cross, discovered in the foundations of the first church, now stands by the south porch of the present church.

Church and churchyard from the north

The church from the south, and war memorial for the First World War.

St Barnabas' Church at Bromborough is a Grade II listed building. It was built between 1862 and 1864. The first church on the site was built in 928 adjacent to a monastery. This church was demolished in 1828 and replaced on the same site by another church. This church was again replaced by the present church.

St Barnabas Bromborough Cross, old head and shaft in a new cross by the churchyard path, in parish of Bebington (Wirral District), St Barnabas parish churchyard, Bromborough, beside church porch. Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1343465 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343465 Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: MSWI_BEB03.

St Barnabas' Church at Bromborough is a Grade II listed building. It was built between 1862 and 1864. The first church on the site was built in 928 adjacent to a monastery. This church was demolished in 1828 and replaced on the same site by another church. This church was again replaced by the present church.

The impressive Bromborough War Memorial stands in the grounds of Image] whose spire can be seen behind the memorial in this picture. The memorial consists of a cross mounted on a stone column. The names of those who lost their lives in the Great War are engraved on the base. Additional panels record the names of those who lost their lives in World War II. The inscription reads: "1914 - THE GREAT WAR - 1919 MAKE THEM TO BE NUMBERED WITH THY SAINTS IN GLORY EVERLASTING ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF"