A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



benefices are in the gift of various bodies of trustees. 

 Emmanuel Church, West Derby Road, erected in 

 1867, is in the gift of Mr. R. D. Anderson. 1 St. 

 Saviour's, Breckfield Road, 1870, originated in an iron 



church erected in 1867 ;' the incumbents are pre- Everton chapel, 

 sented by trustees. St. Timothy's, near Everton 

 Brow, was built in 1862 ; a mission room has been 

 acquired. 3 St. Chad's, Everton Valley, was opened 



The Congregational church in Everton Crescent is 

 the result of a separation from the Establishment in 

 1 800 ; Bethesda Chapel in Hotham Street was then 

 erected, but in 1837 the congregation moved to the 



The church has maintained several 



mission stations. The Chadwick Mount Church was 

 built in 1866-70. For Welsh-speaking Congrega- 

 tionalists there is a church in Netherfield Road, 



as "a school-church in 1 88 1, the permanent building opened in 1868, being a transplantation of the old 

 soon following. The bishop of Liverpool is patron Tabernacle in Great Crosshall Street, Liverpool. 8 

 of both churches. St. Ambrose Ch ' 

 1871.' St. Benedict's, erected in 

 to an 



patronage of these churches is vested in bodies of 

 trustees. St. Cuthbert's, on the Anfield side, was 

 built in 1877 ; the Simeon trustees have the patron- 

 age. 5 St. Polycarp's, Netherfield Road, was erected 



as built in The Calvinistic Methodists have three places ot 



worship where service is conducted in Welsh, and two 



in succe 



hurch, stands near the old village. The others for English-speaking adherents. The United 

 Free Gospellers 'have two churches. The Presby- 

 terians have two churches. 9 There is a Church of 

 Christ in Thirlmere Road. The Salvation Army 

 has a barracks. The Unitarians have a church in 



[886. St. John the Evangelist's, Breck Road, was Hamilton Road. 



built in 1890 as a memorial to Charles Groves, a 

 well-known Liverpool churchman. The patronage of 

 both churches is vested in trustees. 



Everton is considered an extremely Protestant 

 district, but the Roman Catholics have several churches 

 within it. The earliest is St. Francis Xavier's. The 



A Free Church of England has been established in Jesuits, who had served Liverpool during the times of 

 Everton ; its minister is the bishop of the northern persecution, were able to return in 1840, when land 



diocese. 



Liverpool College, Shaw Street, was established in 

 1841. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have several churches 

 Great Homer Street Chapel, built in 1 840," and 

 Whitefield Road, 1 866 ; also a mission chapel and a 

 preaching room. There is a large Welsh-speaking 

 population, and two chapels are devoted to them by 

 the Wesleyans. The Primitive Methodists have two 

 churches ; the Methodist New Connexion one ; and 

 the United Free Methodists two. 



Fabius Chapel, Everton Road, built by the Baptists 

 in 1 868, represents the first place of religious worship 

 known to have existed in the township. Dr. Fabius, 

 a well-known physician, who lived close by, built a 

 chapel about the year 1707 ; a yard attached was 

 used as a burial ground. 7 The congregation increased, 

 but secured a meeting-place in Liverpool in 1722, 

 and the Everton chapel was abandoned. The burial 

 ground, however, remained in possession of the 

 denomination ; and upon it stands the present 



was secured on the border of the rapidly-growing 

 town. Two years later they opened a school in Soho 

 Street, and in 1 845 the church was built. A large 

 educational work has been gradually established. 10 St. 

 Mary Immaculate's, on the northern slope of Everton 

 Hill, was erected in 1856 as the Lady Chapel of a 

 proposed cathedral, and was enlarged in 1885. The 

 bishop's house and St. Edward's College occupy the 

 adjacent St. Domingo House, perhaps the only one of 

 the great Everton mansions still remaining." St. 

 Michael's, West Derby Road, was erected in 1861 to 

 1865, and has since been practically rebuilt. St. 

 George's Industrial School adjoins it. 1 ' 



The Mohammedans have a mosque in Brougham 

 Terrace. 



WALTON 



Waleton, Dom. Bk. ; Walton, 1246. 

 This township, having a wedge-like form, lies on 

 the west and north-west of West Derby and Fazaker- 



building. The same denomination have churches in ley ; it has a length of over 4 miles and an area of 



Shaw Street, built in 1 847, and in Breck Road, called 

 Richmond Chapel, built in 1864. The Welsh 



1,944 acres.' 1 At the extreme north is Warbreck on 

 the border of Aintree ; the Gildhouses were also at 



Baptist Chapel, built in 1869, in Village Street, is a the north end, and along the southern border from 

 migration from Ormond Street, Liverpool, where a north-west to south-east are the districts called 

 congregation had gathered as early as 1 799. Spellow, Anfield, Walton Breck, and Newsham ; 



