Wallasey Memorial Unitarian Church

The church was built in 1898–99, and was designed by Edmund Waring and Edmund Rathbone. Its patron was Martha Elam, a local wealthy Unitarian; Rathbone was also a Unitarian and a scion of the prominent Liverspool banking and business dynasty, many of whom were nonconformist in religion and became Unitarians. Harold Rathbone, another member of the family, made the ceramic reredos which runs at high level above the sanctuary table of the church, and this is probably the largest executed work of the short-lived Della Robbia Pottery of Birkenhead.

The church is constructed in brick with stone dressings and has a tile roof, in the Flemish revival style popular at the time for libraries and civic buildings. It is notably un-ecclesiastical in style with no Christian or religious imagery on the outside. The church is rectangular in plan in six bays with a narthex. To its left is the church hall and a vestry. Also on the left is a porch with an octagonal turret. The interior is "a rare, remarkable, example of English Arts and Crafts furnishing in a Nonconformist chapel". Its fittings were designed by craftsmen and designers from the Bromsgrove Guild. These include Bernard Sleigh who painted the panels on the ends of the choirstalls,…