Church of St Christopher, Norris Green

The Church of St Christopher stands in Norris Green, a suburb of Liverpool. It was built between 1930 and 1932 to the design of Bernard A. Miller. The building is noted for its Grade II* listing, the second-highest recognition for historic structures in England. In 2025 the church closed for worship after structural problems and falling congregations made repairs impossible. Its congregation then joined the new parish of Christ our Hope Liverpool. The church is a brick structure on a steel frame, with stone dressings and a tiled roof. It follows a cruciform plan with a four-bay nave, transepts, a low tower at the crossing, and a two-bay chancel. The west portal and main windows are hyperbolic in shape. Inside, the chancel arch carries a relief of a dove flanked by angels. The curved pulpit and lectern are built into the choir stalls, and the font has an eight-sided star plan with mirror-glass panels. To the east lie three-bay cloisters in Byzantine style, with round arches and an open-air pulpit containing sculpture by Bainbridge Copnall. Beyond the cloisters stands a brick church hall on a steel frame, its long walls decorated with plaques showing angels blowing pipes by H. Tyson Smith. Both cloisters and hall share the church’s Byzantine character. The ensemble remains Miller’s most original work, according to architectural authorities.