St George, Little Sutton

St George's Church in Little Sutton is the oldest non-conformist Church in Ellesmere Port. It was built in the 1830's for the Congregationalists, Then a few years later it was taken over by the Presbyterians by Reverend James Galway in 1851 when he became the churches first Minister.

St George's Church used to have a large garden with a very detailed iron gate looking out onto Chester Road but most of that was lost when Chester Road was widened in the 1930's. Even though the garden had been as I would say ruined the inside still remained the same untouched and unharmed still in its very classical design. Then in the 1960's the sanctuary was re-arranged and the wooden wall that was mounted across the communion table soon became the main feature in the church.

St George's Church used to have a school room which is where the Cheshire Building Society now stands. The school was called the Little Sutton National School which was formed in 1857 and just over 100 pupils attended. The school closed in the 1880's when a new school on Berwick Road was built. The school room was then used for a general purpose hall.

Between the 1960's and the early 1970's a major redevelopment of the area where the school room stood became the Little Sutton Shopping Precinct. It was then decided to divide the church interior, forming the upper hall and the lower meeting room. This enabled, for the first time in its history, the activities of the church to be held under the same roof.

Emma Carins (Year 9 Dec 2004)