Second Church (Greenbank Church)

The second church, also known as The Greenbank Church, was consecrated on 11th November 1814. It was built on a site on Hall Hill, opposite Upton Hall on what is now Old Greasby Road.

 

Building of the church began in June 1813 but was not completed until September 1815. The cost of the church was £728 17s 3d, not including the materials brought from the Norman Church. No architect was employed, and it was often reffered to as a temporary church.
Greenbank Church

The church is described as being wider than the Norman Church, it was a plain limewashed building, ihe only notable feature being that it contained a private pew belonging to the Cust family of Leasowe Castle, whose coat of arms decorated the door of the pew.

 

The last service was held in this church on 26th April 1868, but the building was not demolished until 1887. For the last nineteen years of its life, the building was used as a mortuary for the township.

 

As with the Norman Church, this church had a burial ground. Both these burial grounds remained in the care of the parochial church council until 1958, when they were closed and became the responsibility of the Birkenhead Corporation.

 

The site of the Greenbank Church is now occupied by an undertaker, although much of the original boundary walls of the site are still standing.
Site of Greenbank Church

List of Vicars

 

  •           - 1825 .. .. .. Roger Jacson [1]
  • 1826 - 1831 .. .. .. Robert Mosley Feilden [2]
  • 1832 - 1837 .. .. .. Frederick Barker [3]
  • 1838 - 1840 .. .. .. Maxwell Shayre
  • 1840 - 1841 .. .. .. John Hullett
  • 1842 - 1846 .. .. .. John Gregson
  • 1846 - 1847 .. .. .. Offley Crewe
  • 1847 - 1856 .. .. .. Thomas Bell
  • 1856 - 1862 .. .. .. John James Moss
  • 1862 -            .. .. .. Johnston Hamilton Acheson

[1] Also rector of Bebington.

[2] Also rector of Bebington.

[3] Later became Bishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia