Editing Gerrards Cross (section)

==Facilities==
[[File:St James Church, Gerrards Cross - geograph.org.uk - 6121371.jpg|thumb|left|[[St James Church, Gerrards Cross|St James's Church, Gerrards Cross]], built in 1861.]]
The large and distinctive [[parish church]] is dedicated to [[James, son of Zebedee|St. James]]. It was built in 1859 as a memorial to Colonel George Alexander Reid who was MP for [[Windsor (UK Parliament constituency)|Windsor]], and designed by Sir [[William Tite]] in yellow brick with a [[Byzantine architecture|Byzantine]]-style dome, Chinese-looking [[Turret (architecture)|turret]]s and an [[Italianate]] [[Campanile]].<ref name=NHLE/> In 1969 the singer [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]] married [[Maurice Gibb]] of the [[Bee Gees]] in the church. The actress [[Margaret Rutherford]] is buried with her husband [[Stringer Davis]] in the [[St James Church, Gerrards Cross|St James Church]] graveyard.

The town has its own library and its own cinema, the [[Everyman Gerrards Cross]], which originally opened in 1925.

Independent schools include St Mary's (all girls- through to sixth form). Students of [[Secondary education#England, Wales and Northern Ireland|secondary school]] age attend either one of the local [[grammar school]]s, such as [[Dr Challoner's Grammar School]] (Boys with co-educational Sixth Form), [[Long Close School|Dr Challoner's High School]] (Girls), The [[Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe]] (Boys), [[John Hampden Grammar School]] (Boys), and [[Beaconsfield High School]] (Girls) [[Chesham Grammar School]] (Co-ed), and the local [[Upper School]], [[Chalfonts Community College]], which is the [[Catchment area (human geography)|catchment]] school.

On the south side of the town is the [[Gerrards Cross Memorial Building]], on the site of the former vicarage. The building was designed by [[Sir Edwin Lutyens]] and unveiled in 1922 to commemorate the town's losses during the First World War. It is the only example of a Lutyens war memorial designed with a functional purpose.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1430052|desc=Gerrards Cross Memorial Building|access-date=19 December 2015}}</ref>