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Sadly for those of us who know and love St Aidan's, the Church has had to close recently due to ongoing and irreparable problems with the building. The congregation is determined to keep St Aidan's going however, and have temporarily moved into Middlefield School in Speke until new, more permanent premises can be found.  

As you can see from these photographs, every care has been taken to keep the Church looking good but underneath the decorations, the bricks were crumbling and the boiler was dying, and despite everyone's best efforts, it was felt it was time to move on.

Please keep St Aidan's in your prayers as they wait for Christ's plan for them to unfold.

St Aidan's History

St Aidan's Church was built in the centre of the estate of Speke in 1957 following a 'Buy A Brick' campaign to raise funds for a new Parish Church in addition to All Saints when it became clear that the smaller Church wasn't big enough to look after the new flock 

on the growing estate.  

St Aidan's  was consecrated on 21st December 1957 in a service led by the Lord Bishop of Liverpool, Clifford Arthur, the Archdeacon of Warrington, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and many local dignitaries.   Mr E Broadfoot was the People's Warden and Mr J Critchley, the Vicar's Warden and the Foundation Stone was laid in 1956 by Charles Gladstone, a distant relation to the famous Prime Minister.

In the service sheet the following comments were made about the new Church:

'With the building of the Church we have now realised our aim, the creation of a Church centre for pioneer evangelistic work. '

The hymns sung at the Consecration service are just as familiar today 

as they were then:

Christ is made the sure Foundation

Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire

Glorious things of thee are spoken

Praise, my soul, the King of heaven

The Sentence of Consecration

'By virtue of our sacred office in the Church of God we do now declare to be consecrate, and set apart for ever from all profane and common uses, this House of God under the dedication of Saint Aidan, together with it's Chapel under the dedication of Saint Thomas.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, 

be honour and glory for ever and ever. '

At the west end of the Church is the organ gallery and choir vestry although the organ can now be played from the front of the Church so the organist doesn't feel left out up in the loft!  At the Consecration Service though only half the organ was in place because the rest of it was still being brought down, bit by bit from Aberdeen!  The first organist at St Aidan's was Arthur Reynolds.

Rev Graham Spiers, the first Vicar at St Aidan's made collections in the local breweries to raise money to buy the organ (that's the story anyway) and later on the Norris family of Speke Hall paid half the money for its upkeep.  The other Ministers in the team were Curates Rev Michael Dewsbury and Rev Russell Twyford.

As you can see from these photographs St Aidan's is still well loved and cared, 

with many banners and artwork by the congregation on display around the Altar.

Photographs of St Aidan's and a some of it's beautiful windows can be found by clicking on the fish

What's On at St Aidan's at the moment                         

St Aidan's is dedicated to Saint Aidan whose symbol is a flame.

If you click on this flame in any St Aidan's pages, it will always bring you

safely back to this home page.