Title

St Luke's Church, Leece Street, Liverpool, 1963. Creator: Frederick Palmer.

Caption

St Luke's Church, Leece Street, Liverpool, 1963. A view from beneath the chancel arch looking west towards the tower in the bombed out ruins of St Luke's Church. St Luke's Church was bombed during the Blitz in 1941. The walls and tower, minus the roof, have been retained as a memorial to those killed during the war.

Date

1963

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM21B21_029

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

75,2Mb (3,3Mb) / 14,8in x 19,7in / 4445 x 5911 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England interior destruction religious country religion memorial British English church damage ruins ruin Christian Christianity war location century Britain inside wartime concept ruined B&W 1940s Liverpool Merseyside warfare Forties Sixties bombed World War II World War two WWII bombing Indoors black & white black and white B W world war 2 1960s 20th century air raid Blitz aerial warfare bomb damage church tower decade Home Front Second World War St Luke's Church TGN WW2 photograph 2nd World War church of St Luke Frederick Palmer Palmer Frederick Historic England Frederick John Palmer