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ST Faith’s Church GReat Crosby

ST Faith’s Church GReat Crosby. Views from the Archives Part 1. Click to advance to the next and subsequent slides. Mr Howard Douglas Horsfall founder and benefactor of St Faith’s.

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ST Faith’s Church GReat Crosby

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  1. ST Faith’s ChurchGReat Crosby Views from the Archives Part 1 Click to advance to the next and subsequent slides

  2. Mr Howard Douglas Horsfall founder and benefactor of St Faith’s The laying of the foundation stone (outside the north porch) by Robert Elcum Horsfall, son of St Faith’s benefactor , on May 24th, 1898. The choir is that of St Agnes, Ullet Road, Liverpool, an earlier Horsfall foundation; its vicar, Fr Elcum, is seen in his biretta

  3. St Faith’s was consecrated in 1900. For some years, as in this picture, it stood alone amid open fields

  4. St Faith’s choir and High Altar The Salviati reredos and the seven sanctuary lamps are in place, as is the gas lighting; there are just two High Altar candle sticks The chancel The chancel screen has yet to be installed, dating this view before 1918

  5. More views of St Faith’s in the early years Pews extend round and past the pulpit (where today’s nave altar stands) almost to the chancel rail, and illumination is by means of ornate hanging gas lamps

  6. St Faith’s still stands alone in 1905 Liverpool Road (today’s A565) is empty of vehicles and most of its street furniture. The palisade fencing has been replaced today by low brick walls The banding effect on the walls and buttresses is less prominent today.

  7. The first Vicar Thomas Howe Baxter 1900 - 1915 The second Vicar Harold Bentley Bentley-Smith 1915 - 1918

  8. A 1920s view Crosby House on Kingsway and Milton Road are in place, as is the Parish Hall. The site for Cameron’s Garage (now Tesco Express) is being prepared. Lines in the road and the tall bracket posts are probably the relics of the tram system which ran from Seaforth to Crosby from 1900 -1925

  9. Robert Elcum Horsfall son of the founder, and who laid the foundation stone in 1898, was killed in WW1 A modern view of the chancel screen. Douglas Horsfall donated it in memory of his son: an incised inscription marks the dedication. It carries carved representations of four of the patron saints of other Horsfall benefactions.

  10. Commercial postcard view of St Faith`s (‘Waterloo’) from College Road. Merchant Taylors’ grounds are behind the fence on the left and Ashlar Road leads off to the right of the houses The third Vicar Canon John Brierley 1918 - 1935

  11. Canon Brierley with the choir, wardens and servers, and long-serving verger Jim Burgess (in gown) far right on both pictures. The banner of St Faith is still in use today, but the processional cross has been twice replaced since these pictures were taken 1928 1932

  12. Canon Brierley and the St Faith’s team in 1935. The bearded man in the front row is founder Douglas Horsfall, wearing his trademark skull-cap. The banner to the right reads ‘Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus’ and bears the motif of the Holy Trinity.

  13. Fr Mark Way Mark Way served as curate at St Faith’s between 1928 and 1934. He served with the Universities Mission to Central Africa and eventually became Bishop of Masasi.

  14. The fourth Vicar John Schofield 1936 – 1947

  15. Herbert William Cockett Fr Cockett was a curate at St Faith’s between 1931 and 1933. He subsequently served as a missionary with U.M.C.A. in Nyasaland, now Malawi, serving a vast area of scattered mission churches, where he died of blackwater fever in 1936. There is a window commemorating him in the south aisle.

  16. The second part of our archive slideshow takes the story of St Faith’s to the present day. Other presentations show the church and its furnishings in the 21st century, as well as sequence of images of how we mark the seasons of the Christian year and other special occasions. Use the hyperlinks below to access these and other pages, or use the index or search box accessed from the home page. This presentation designed by Denis Griffiths and realised by Chris Price

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