1848 Map & Liverpool Google Earth View

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A. The area surrounding St Peter's Church

Points to note:

1. The South East corner of the St Peter's Church, touches the current building line, as seen today.

2. St Peter's graveyard boundary wall extends into Church Street, by over a third a width of the current Street.

3. The brass Maltese cross [now set back into the pavement] which commemorates the church, actually falls outside the plan of the church, but is comfortably sited within the boundary of the graveyard.

4. The Marks and Spenser building [Crompton House Hotel] wasn't built until 1867, so the street line is somewhat narrower than would be expected.

5. Very little remains of the Church Street street-line from 1848; the line between Williamson St. & Whitechapel seems unaffected.

B. The area surrounding St Georges Church

Points to note:

1. Liverpool One's reconstructed 'South John Street' does not follow the original street's plan, but is instead slightly to the east of it.

2. Queen Victoria monument is sited almost centrally on what was the altar of St George's Church.

3. The new Lewis's building has a different architecture from the rest of the building's clean glass facade, in the space between the old Custom's House and the old sailor's home.

4. The west side of Paradise Street has been extensively widened, from the 1848 street plan.