St. Werburgh's Church - any pictures? - 7th Jan 2012 9:41am
Apparently the interior of St. Werburgh's Church was quite a sight:
"St Werburgh’s Church interior before the horrendous modernisation in the seventies....you would find a gem. Inside it was simultaneously the most spooky and yet beautifully atmospheric religious place in Birkenhead. It had a four times lifesize bleeding plaster crucifix (Victorian era) painted in horrific pallid realism behind the altar and some towering black statues of the saints to the right and left. (Benedict and Werburgh I think). I once attended "benediction" there on a Sunday afternoon and the whole place was a feverish dream swirling in incense. A real time-warp place/experience. I hope the old altar-piece and that crucifix is still behind the horrid plastic wood wall behind the altar with which they covered it (if any of it still there.....I was last in Birkenhead around 1992!!). Seriously it was all spooky but really beautiful"
I myself was forced there mnay times as a pupil in the 1990's and it was strange enough then, but this older memory sounds far more gothic! Anyone have any old pictures of the inside?
"St Werburgh’s Church interior before the horrendous modernisation in the seventies....you would find a gem. Inside it was simultaneously the most spooky and yet beautifully atmospheric religious place in Birkenhead. It had a four times lifesize bleeding plaster crucifix (Victorian era) painted in horrific pallid realism behind the altar and some towering black statues of the saints to the right and left. (Benedict and Werburgh I think). I once attended "benediction" there on a Sunday afternoon and the whole place was a feverish dream swirling in incense. A real time-warp place/experience. I hope the old altar-piece and that crucifix is still behind the horrid plastic wood wall behind the altar with which they covered it (if any of it still there.....I was last in Birkenhead around 1992!!). Seriously it was all spooky but really beautiful"
I myself was forced there mnay times as a pupil in the 1990's and it was strange enough then, but this older memory sounds far more gothic! Anyone have any old pictures of the inside?