Should St Lukes Church in Liverpool City Centre be restored as a functional building?Perhaps as a testimony?

to the blitz on the city,or as somewhere to hold religeous concerts,with public facilities,cafe etc,or as a specialised museum with relevance to its history.Ifeel successive councils have conveniently neglected this great jewel in the city as its easier to leave it as it is and conveniently say its a memorial to the bombings,How unimaginative.

I believe that if buildings are disused then they fall into disrepair and then fall down so the answer to your question is yes the building should be in use.
From the outside St.Lukes looks Ok but once inside it is obvious that the masonry needs pointing at least. I would like to see it returned to a place of worship and a memorial to the blitz ---your suggestins sound pretty good.
I was once working in the gardens when a young German tourist asked why the building had no centre. I told her it had been bombed and she asked who by?
See www.geocities.com/johnhussey1@btinternet...
for a picture of the building before it was bombed.

I like it as it is.

I must agree with you,turn it into a useful facility for the city and maintain the architectural integrity of the building when they refurbish it.

Leave it as it is.

St Luke's Church in Liverpool, England, is located on the corner of Berry Street and Leece Street opposite the top of Bold Street. It was designed by John Foster, and construction of the building began on April 9, 1811, with consecration taking place on January 12, 1831.

On Monday, May 5, 1941, St Luke's was hit and burned by an incendiary bomb. Today it still stands as a burnt out shell, commonly known locally as "the bombed-out church", and its churchyard is a public park. A memorial to the dead of the Irish famine has been added to the grounds recently.

I agree with the other respondents so leave as it is.

I remember the bombed out buildings near the docks , and the vast open spaces near the city centre which had been cleared of debris soon after the war. there has been so much rebuilding of the city centre over the past 40 years so that nearly all the blitzed buildings have gone.
We need to remember what war means to people away from the battlefield. or what happens when the 'front line is your city'

The precedent has been set by Coventry where the new cathedral was tastefully linked to the former bombed out building.

Good question

The church is officially a war memorial, so no, they shouldn't do anything to it.