St Luke’s Church Great Crosby
Grounds Project
“to create a place of beauty and a haven for people and wildlife”
7 Developments in 2009
We have been very active in 2009! We have been fortunate to receive a number of funding awards which have enabled us to improve the grassed area next to the church hall, the boundary with the graveyard and develop new garden areas.
This page shows the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of each project, but you can click on each one to find out more.
We created a new path through the grassed area beside the hall to provide direct and level access, suitable for wheelchair users, between the disabled parking spaces and the community garden.
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2 New seating bays and railings: February - July
We created 4 bays cut out of the bank adjoining the same grassed area and installed four seats. Temporary fencing was replaced with lower railings (at the top of the bank) to match the railings in the community garden. This will provide a more attractive outdoor space linking the hall to the community garden.
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3 Verge between car park and graveyard: February - May
This boundary between the car park and graveyard is next to a main entrance into the graveyard. It desperately needed to be improved!
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4 Perennial wildflower meadow: February - April
This was an experiment. We could pay to remove several tons of concrete rubble from the grounds, or we could recycle it into something more attractive … like a perennial wildflower meadow!
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We would have liked to provide a pond in the grounds. As the grounds are always open to the public, we agreed it would be safer to plant a bog garden, even if it would not be quite as attractive to wildlife.
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