The final church in the triangle is the Unitarian Chapel.
We started our tour in the Church hall then moved through the cloister into the Library, Vestry and then into the church itself.
The church was built 1896-1899 whilst the Hall and the Cloister were added in 1901. The builders were Thomas & Percy Worthington of Manchester and amongst its benefactories were famous sons of Liverpool; Holt, Booth, Brunner and Tate to name a few. The congregation moved to Ullet Road from Renshaw Street in the city centre.
The buildings are of red brick built around gardens. The church interior is sandstone, and provides a contrast to the other 2 churches in the triangle. The reredos is of the Last Supper by H.H. Martyn based on the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting.
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The vestry and library have some wonderful wall and ceiling paintings by Gerald Moira commissioned by Sir John Brunner (of Brunner-Mond which later became ICI Chemicals). The paintings are extremely deorative and include the Triumph of Truth accompanied by artists, scientists, religious leaders and other seekers after truth, ancient and modern, including Moses, St Francis, Shakespeare, Aristotle, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates, Plato and Isaac Newton to name a few!
The hall and cloisters were given by Sir John Brunner and Henry Tate. Inside, it has an impressive timber roof and reminded me of a medieval Great Hall especially with its prominent coats of arms of Brunner and Tate and the metal work was arts and crafts style. In the Cloister are two bays with monuments take from the earlier chapel in Renshaw Street.
It was amazing to find three Grade 1 listed church buildings within a stones throw of each other. I really enjoyed taking tours of each of them in turn, and seeing how each is so so different.
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