St Luke’s Church Great Crosby
Grounds Project
“to create a place of beauty and a haven for people and wildlife”
Phase 2: New gardens, new habitat
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 2009
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 - July 2009
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 - July 2009
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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6 Garden for reflection: August 2009 – February 2010
We transformed an untidy part of the car park into a garden for reflection. A rugged cross was carved by Simon, our chain saw wood carver, and forms the centrepiece of the garden. At the bottom of these words are carved: I came to give you life … life to the full. Jesus.
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7 New path at far end of graveyard: December 2009 – January 2010
We relaid the uneven, narrow path along the back of the Northern Road properties. This means that half of the graveyard paths are now accessible by wheelchair, allowing full access to virtually all our garden areas.
![before [narrow path]](images/5628a.jpg)
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8 Extension to bog garden: February – April 2010
We dug out a new area of bog garden in February 2010. This part of the graveyard had been tipped and we made a number of exciting discoveries – bottles, shopping trolley and wheelbarrow – before reclaiming it as a bog garden.
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Introduction
1 In the beginning
2 Transforming the Grounds
3 Developing Partnerships
4 Publicity and awards
5 Groundforce
6 A haven for wildlife?
7 Outdoor events and services
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This page was last modified on
25 November 2011.