Wirral’s Flaybrick Memorial Gardens is bouncing back from years of neglect with a £325,000 project to save its derelict chapels, as reported by the Liverpool Echo.
Opened in 1864 to the designs of Edward Kemp, Superintendent of Birkenhead Park. The cemetery’s significance is recognised by its Grade II* listing on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Urgent repairs are being carried out to the Birkenhead cemetery’s linked Anglican and Non-conformist chapels to stabilise their walls to prevent collapse – and fix stonework and carvings which have been hidden for over 30 years. Fallen masonry is being preserved in the hope that the stones may eventually be reused.
Councillor Jerry Williams said: ‘We believe that Flaybrick is one of the finest locations of funerary architecture in Britain’.
Wirral Council with £8,000 of grant funding from Historic England – has commissioned a Conservation Management Plan for the Cemetry. Historic England’s Principal Heritage at Risk Adviser Charles Smith said: ‘We are delighted to be supporting Wirral Council in delivering this repair project to the Victorian cemetery chapels, and producing the Conservation Management Plan’.
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