Church of St Luke, Liverpool
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St Luke's Church in Liverpool
, England
, is located on the corner of Berry Street and Leece Street opposite the top of Bold Street
. It was designed by John Foster
, and construction of the building began on 9 April 1811, with consecration taking place on 12 January 1831.
On Monday, 5 May 1941, St Luke's was hit and burned by an incendiary bomb. Today it still stands as a burnt out shell, commonly known locally as "the bombed-out church", and its churchyard is a public park. A memorial to the dead of the Irish famine has been added to the grounds recently.
The church is on the English Heritage
Buildings at Risk Register.
From 2007 the low-tech music group Urban Strawberry Lunch
have been artists in residence at St Lukes, hosting an eclectic range of music, arts & film events.
Additionally, since 2003 Urban Strawberry Lunch
has been compiling a sound archive oral histories of the Liverpool Blitz
, the Finest Hour project. They also organise an annual event commemorating the anniversary of the bombing of St Lukes.
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, is located on the corner of Berry Street and Leece Street opposite the top of Bold Street
Bold Street, Liverpool
Bold Street is a street in Liverpool, England. It is known for its cafés and for the Church of St Luke, which is situated at the top end. The bottom end leads into the area surrounding Clayton Square, which is part of the main retail district of central Liverpool. The bottom end contains more...
. It was designed by John Foster
John Foster (architect)
John Foster, Junior was an English architect.-Biography:Foster studied under Jeffry Wyatt in London and in 1809 travelled in the eastern Mediterranean. During 1810-11 he accompanied C. R. Cockerell and the German archaeologists Haller and Linckh in their excavation of the temples at Aegina and...
, and construction of the building began on 9 April 1811, with consecration taking place on 12 January 1831.
On Monday, 5 May 1941, St Luke's was hit and burned by an incendiary bomb. Today it still stands as a burnt out shell, commonly known locally as "the bombed-out church", and its churchyard is a public park. A memorial to the dead of the Irish famine has been added to the grounds recently.
The church is on the English Heritage
English Heritage
English Heritage . is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
Buildings at Risk Register.
From 2007 the low-tech music group Urban Strawberry Lunch
Urban Strawberry Lunch
Urban Strawberry Lunch are a Liverpool, England, based group who make music on everyday objects. Formed by Benjamin F Tin and Ambrose Reynolds in 1987, USL began making their own musical instruments after a fire destroyed all of their musical instruments...
have been artists in residence at St Lukes, hosting an eclectic range of music, arts & film events.
Additionally, since 2003 Urban Strawberry Lunch
Urban Strawberry Lunch
Urban Strawberry Lunch are a Liverpool, England, based group who make music on everyday objects. Formed by Benjamin F Tin and Ambrose Reynolds in 1987, USL began making their own musical instruments after a fire destroyed all of their musical instruments...
has been compiling a sound archive oral histories of the Liverpool Blitz
Liverpool Blitz
The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the British city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, at the time mostly within the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire but commonly known as Merseyside, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.Liverpool, Bootle, and the...
, the Finest Hour project. They also organise an annual event commemorating the anniversary of the bombing of St Lukes.