Churches of Liverpool

[MissInformed]

Hi folks
I can't seem to see a thread on this, and thought I would start one.

Be good to post our fave churches, architecture wise, interesting facts, location etc..

[shytalk]

Great idea MissI, we have an expert on the subject Jona76. Check out his website on Childwall Church.

[MissInformed]

Yeah he is a bit of an expert

[Kev]

All Saints Childwall:













St. Michael's Church, Garston:












^^old grave^^

The Reading Rooms, Garston: (not sure on the history)



St. Francis of Assissi, Garston:



Garston United Reformed Church



Another Garston one:



Chapel in Allerton Cemetery:

[MissInformed]

canning.merseyworld.com/stphilip.htm

i have read alot about this church but never actually been to the site...

Is the garden still there?
pic courtesy of liverpool record office online archive.

[PhilipG]

Quote:
The Reading Rooms, Garston: (not sure on the history)




This was an early cinema, so I've researched the history:

GARSTON PICTURE PALACE

2 Wellington Street, Garston, Liverpool 19

Opened (January?) 1910 (or September 1909)

The building was erected as a "Reading & Lecture Room" and was opened in 1861 "chiefly through the exertions of Hugh Gaskell Sutton", (who died in 1862), to quote from a plaque found at the premises.

From 1867 it was used as a church for the English Congregationalists, and later (1890s) it was also used as a monthly petty Sessions Court. (I read somewhere that Florence Maybrick made her first appearance in Court here, but not being an authority on that subject, I could be wrong). Penny Savings Bank (established in 1880) was open on Saturday evenings.

By 1900 to c1909 it was called Garston Reading Room, Garston Library.

As the Garston Reading and Lecture Room, a "Music, Singing, Dancing & Other Public Entertainments" Licence was granted to Walter Lunt. This was the same type of licence given to music halls.

The Music Licence was transferred from Walter Lunt to Roger Abel on 28 September 1909.

On 11 January 1910 a cinematograph licence was granted to Roger Abel, and the building was called the Wellington Picture Palace. The address was given as 11 Wellington Street, which was either a mistake or Mr Abel's home. The transfer of the music licence the previous September to Mr Abel indicates that the premises were probably showing films then. Mr Abel was the secretary for the Trustees of the Reading Room.

The cinema was also known as the Garston Picture Palace, and the Reading Room Picture Palace.

In 1913 the seating capacity was 338. The gallery was still closed to the public.

(The Garston Empire opened in June 1915, and showed films right from the start).

On the 31 May 1918 the cinema licenses were granted to both this and the Heald Street cinema only until the Annual Meeting of the Licensing Bench on 31 October 1918. The Borough Surveyor then reported that the Wellington Street premises were unsuitable, so this cinema was closed by official order. (The Heald Street cinema was allowed to continue on condition that the projection room was altered).

From November 1919 the Wellington Street building was licensed (as the Garston Citizen's Institute) for Music, Singing and Dancing, until the licence expired on 31 October 1921.

From 1921 to 1925 it was the Reading Room Men's Club, after which it was St Michael's Church Club, to 1938. From 1939 it became the Garston Boy's Club, which it still was in the 1970s.

It is now called the Garston Reading Room, and is a local community centre with a host of activities.

[MissInformed]

great piece philip!

[PhilipG]

great piece philip!

Thank you, Carrie.

The (Italian?) garden at St Philip Neri in Catharine Street is still there.
There is a "window" in the wall so you can see in.
Whenever I've looked it always seems neat and tidy.

[Kev]

Cheers for the info, I never knew much about one of Garston's oldest buildings.

[Kev]

[shytalk]

Nice pics taffy, is it still in use?

[PhilipG]

Still looking good with its new neighbours.

[theninesisters]

A lovely set of 12 bells in St Nicks.

• 1745: New spire erected and tower heightened.
• 1810: On Sunday Morning February 11th “a few minutes before the commencement of divine service, while the bells were ringing the second peal.” A portion of the congregation was already in the church, and the masonry falling to the east “instantly burst through the roof and fell along the centre aisle.” The result was that twenty-five people were killed, of whom eighteen were children. New tower was begun in September
• 1812-1813: A new ring of 12 bells was cast by William Dobson of Downham, Norfolk.
• 1814: First peal on the bells.
• 1815: Tower and lantern completed
• J.J. Raven writes in 'The bells of England' about Dobson’s bells “His greatest work was the twelve of St Nicholas, Liverpool. I have been told that the Liverpool folk were determined to rival St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, bell for bell, but they tied Dobson down too tightly, so that his heaviest peal is not his best.”
• 1825: The fourth was recast.
• 1895: An Ellacombe chiming apparatus was installed. This had been was removed by c1938 and has never been replaced although the holes still exist in the ringing room ceiling behind the present 10th rope.
• 1911: Tenor recast by John Warner & Sons, London and rehung the bells on new fittings. Cast iron stocks, plain bearings. (Taylor’s records per David Cawley)
• C1938: Taylor’s report that Hoffman ball bearings fitted to bells 10-12 at some stage fitted locally. These three bells are reported to run well. There was also a disused clock hammer on the 11th bell. Looking at the old frame drawings, the tenor rope fell approximately where the present 9th rope falls now.
• 1939: Last peal on the Dobson bells.
• C1940 The bells were removed and stored at Taylor’s for the duration of World War II.
• 1941: Church burnt out during a bombing raid. .
• 1952: The old ring of twelve was recast by Taylor’s, a flat sixth and sanctus bells added. Further metal was added to that of the old peal from the church of St. Martin in the Fields, Silvester Street, Liverpool.

Source - Family

[AK1]

St Cecilia's, Tuebrook



St Paul's, Old Swan (Grade 2 Listed, Largest brick built church in Europe)



St John Baptist, Tuebrook (Below, Grade 1 Listed)

http://130.246.192.12/images/conway/526143d8.html

[AK1]

Some More.......

St Andrews, Clubmoor (not the best picture in the world)



ST Matthews, Clubmoor (Below)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/72936