WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



list, Tue Brook, was built in 1871.' Christ Church, 

 Kensington, was opened in 1 870.* All Saints', Stony- 

 croft, was built in 1875. The patronage of these five 

 churches is vested in different bodies of trustees. 

 St. Cyprian's, Edge Lane, was erected in 1881 ; 

 Simeon's trustees have the patronage. 3 



On the Spekeland Estate being sold for building 

 purposes the Earle family reserved a plot of ground 

 and built thereon a memorial church, St. Dunstan's, 

 Earle Road, opened in 1 899 ; the Earle trustees are 

 the patrons. The church of St. Philip, Shell Road, 

 opened in 1885, has replaced the old church of the 

 same title in Liverpool, 4 sold in 1882 ; the patronage 

 is in the hands of trustees. 



The adherents of the Reformed Church of England 

 for many years conducted services at Tue Brook, as a 

 protest against what they considered the ' ritualism ' 

 at St. John the Baptist's. About 1893 they erected 

 a small chapel. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have churches as follows : 

 Brunswick chapel, Moss Street, built in 1 8 1 o ; it is 

 one of the centres of Liverpool Methodism, and the 

 Conference has been held there. There are two 

 mission halls in connexion with it. Cardwell Street 

 chapel, Edge Hill, was built in 1880, and Aigburth 

 Street in 1896; Fairfield chapel in 1867; Tue 

 Brook chapel in 1886. The last-named building 

 was formerly a Presbyterian chapel in Bootle ; it was 

 taken down and rebuilt on this site ; there are two 

 mission rooms connected with it. St. Paul's, Stony- 

 croft, was built in 1865 ; and the Birch memorial 

 chapel in Edge Lane in 1884. At West Derby 

 village there is a chapel in Crosby Green, built about 

 1840. At Plimsoll Street, Edge Hill, is a Welsh 

 Wesleyan chapel. The United Methodist Free 

 Church have a place of worship in Burning Road, 

 built in 1877. The Primitive Methodists have 

 churches in Edge Hill, Kensington, and Tue 

 Brook. 



The Baptists have several churches. Pembroke 

 chapel, built in 1839, was the scene of the ministra- 

 tions of the Rev. Charles M. Birrell,* who died in 

 1880 ; the present minister is the Rev. Charles F. 

 Aked. Empire Street chapel was built in 1886. 

 Kensington chapel, 1889, represents the old Soho 

 Street chapel, built in 1837. Cottenham Street and 

 Tue Brook chapels were built in 1876. A Welsh 

 Baptist chapel in Edge Lane, 1887, represents a 

 migration from Juno Street, where a chapel was built 

 in 1858. 



The Congregationalist churches are Green Lane, 

 Stanley, built in 1865 ; Norwood, near Sheil 

 Park, in 1870; and Edge Hill, 1877.' A Welsh 



WALTON 

 Kensington was built in 



; chapel at Edge 



Congregational chapel 

 Ittl.' 



The United Free Gospellers ha 

 Hill, called Mount Zion. 8 



The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists have churches in 

 Edge Lane, Newsham Park, and Webster Road. 



The Presbyterian Church of England has places 

 of worship at Fairfield, built in 1864; Earle Road, 

 1882; Tue Brook, founded in i8o6. 9 The Re- 

 formed Presbyterians have a chapel in Hall Lane. 10 

 Olive hall, West Derby village, built about 1860, has 

 been used by various Christian evangelists. 



The adherents of the Roman Catholic Church in 

 the township long remained relatively numerous ; " 

 they were able probably to hear mass from time to 

 time at Croxteth or some other of the larger houses, 

 but no records are available until the middle of the 

 seventeenth century, after which the story of the Crox- 

 teth chaplaincy is fairly continuous. It was long served 

 by the Jesuits and then by the Benedictines. On 

 the first earl of Sefton conforming to the Established 

 religion in 1769, the priest in charge turned some 

 rooms at a house in Gill Moss into a chapel, which 

 remained in use until 1824, when the adjoining 

 church of St. Swithin was opened. It has a chalice 

 and some paintings brought from the old chapel in 

 the hall. This church was served by the Jesuits till 

 1887, when it was handed over to the secular clergy. 

 There is a small graveyard. The baptismal register 

 dates from 1757." No other mission was begun until 

 1839, when some stables at Old Swan were used, 

 pending the erection of St. Oswald's, opened in 1 842. 

 This is a pleasing building, designed by A. W. Pugin." 

 St. Anne's, Edge Hill, begun in 1843 as an offshoot 

 of St. Peter's, Seel Street, is served by the English 

 Benedictines ; mass was at first said in a room in the 

 priest's house, but in 1 846 the church was opened. 14 

 The Sacred Heart mission, Mount Vernon, was 

 established in 1857 ; the chapel of St. Ethelburga's 

 convent was used until, in 1886, the new church was 

 opened. St. Paul's, West Derby, a school chapel, was 

 opened in 1880 ; Yew Tree Cemetery is served from 

 it. The mission of St. Sebastian, Fairfield, was 

 opened in 1 904 in a room of the convent of Adora- 

 ration and Reparation. 15 St. Cecilia's, Tue Brook, 

 was begun in 1905. St. Ethelburga's Convent for 

 the sisters of Mercy, already mentioned, was opened 

 in 1843. The Blind Asylum in Brunswick Road is 

 managed by sisters of Charity, who also conduct the 

 Poor Law schools at Leyfield, West Derby village. 



The Jews have burial grounds in Deane Road, and 

 at Tue Brook. 



A free school existed in the village in 1677. 



1 Land. Gaz. 6 Feb. 1872, for district. 

 In connexion with it a mission church of 

 the Advent was opened about 1890. 



a Ibid. 23 April, 1872, for district. 



8 For the district assigned, see Land. 

 Gaz. 2 Sept. 1881. 



4 The organ, pulpit, lectern, and altar 

 were brought from the old church. 



* He was one of the most influential 

 ministers in Liverpool ; father of Mr. 

 Augustine Birrell. 



6 Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. vi, 187, 

 212 ; Green Lane is the result of cot- 

 tage preaching started in 1853 ; Nor- 

 wood is an outcome of the Bicentenary 

 Celebration of 1862 ; work at Edge Hill 

 commenced with a Sunday school in 1857, 

 and the chapel in Chatham Place was used 

 from 1868 to 1877. 



^ Owing to a dispute at Grove Street 

 chapel, part of the congregation separated 

 in 1878 ; Kensington church is the result ; 

 ibid, i, 232. 



8 It was built for the Methodist New 

 Connexion in 1861, and used by the 

 Congregationalists for ten years, as stated 

 above. 



The Earle Road church originated in 

 a temporary building in 1862. 



10 This congregation represents those 

 connected with the Shaw Street church, 

 who, in 1876, refused to join in the 

 general union of the English Presbyterian 

 bodies. It is affiliated to the Reformed 

 Presbyterians of Ireland. 



See list of 1641 in Tram. Hist. Soc. 

 (New Ser.), xiv, 237. 



1 9 



Jos. Gillow, in Tram. Hist. Soc. (New 

 Ser.), xiii, 150, where is printed a de- 

 scription of the chapel plate in 1709, as 

 given by the informer, Richard Hitch- 

 mough. In 1728 Bishop Williams con- 

 firmed 207 persons at Croxteth, and in 

 1774 Bishop Walton confirmed 200 at 

 Gill Moss. 



is This and other information is chiefly 

 drawn from the Liverpool Catb. Ann. 

 1901. Bishop Brown, first bishop of 

 Liverpool of the restored hierarchy, is 

 buried at St. Oswald's. 



"In 1888 it was greatly enlarged by 

 the addition of new chancel, chapels, and 

 transepts. A baptistery was added in 1893. 



15 Adoration Rcfaratrice, one of the 

 French orders in exile. 



