Crosby United Reformed Church

Crosby United Reformed Church, originally built as a Congregational church, was constructed between 1897 and 1898 by architects Douglas and Fordham. It is made of snecked red sandstone with graduated green slate roofs and is designed in the Gothic style. The church features a nave with a fleche, low north and south aisles, a southeast porch, large north and south transepts, a west chancel, and a southwest choir vestry with an organ-house above.

The exterior of the four-bay nave includes angle-buttresses that end in octagonal turrets, large side buttresses that are pierced by the aisles, and 2-centred arched three-light clerestory windows with stepped arched lights. The east end has a large 2-centred arched three-light window with traceried lights and a slated fleche with open arcading at the base. Each bay of the aisles contains a pair of small 2-centred arched windows. The south side's east bay features a large gabled porch with coupled arched doorways set in a 2-centred arch adorned with four orders of moulding. The transepts are highlighted by large 2-centred arched four-light windows with moulded surrounds and geometrical tracery. The two-storey choir vestry has a polygonal turret on its south side, while the chancel boasts a five-light window with geometrical plate tracery, flanked by cusped blind windows. There is also a large congregational hall, likely formerly a school, connected to the north side of the church by a single-storey range at the east end, designed in a similar style and featuring two fleche ventilators on the roof.

Inside, the church has double-chamfered 2-centred arched aisle arcades on short piers, creating three wide bays and two narrow bays at the east end. The large transept arches are styled similarly, and the chancel arch is larger with two orders of moulding. The impressive timber roof is of unusual construction, featuring hammerbeams supported by raked straight braces, arch-braced collar trusses that carry two sets of wind-braced purlins, and a flat boarded ceiling over the upper set.