Our Lady's Parish History

Opened in 1909 the 'tin church' was the first Roman Catholic church in Ellesmere Port. The materials for the building would have been supplied by the Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Co. which had set up it's Ellesmere Port factory five years earlier. A school for over 100 pupils was also opened on the same site in Enfield Road in 1912. These buildings were demolished in 1983 and are now the location of the new presbytery (built 1984) and car park entrance.
~ picture courtesy of Ian Boumphrey - 'Yesterday's Wirral'


A view of the new Our Lady Star of the Sea church, shortly after it was completed in October 1931. The building took just over a year to complete, the foundation stone was laid on 28th September 1930 and the church opened on 12th October 1931.

~ Michael Day, Sunnyfield Image Collection


Whitby Road, Ellesmere Port c.1910. Showing the scene before the current church was built. The building on the corner was at the time the local Liberal Club, later to become the Co-Op Furniture store, and more recently Kentucky Fried Chicken!

~ Michael Day, Sunnyfield Image Collection


Another view of Enfield Road c.1915. Part of the original 'Tin Church' can be seen on the right.
~ Michael Day, Sunnyfield Image Collection