A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



in Hotham Street in imitation of the Temple of 

 Jupiter at ^gina. The site being required for Lime 

 Street Station, the building was taken down and care- 

 fully re-erected in its present position in Hardman 

 Street in 1850.™ It is the Liverpool home of Broad 

 Church doctrine. 



St. David's, for Welsh-speaking Anglicans, was built 

 in 1827.''° As far back as 1793 Welsh services had 

 been authorized in St. Paul's Church.'" Another 

 special church was the Mariners' Church, an old 

 sloop-of-war moored in George's Dock. It was used 

 from 1827, but ultimately sank at its moorings in 

 1872.''= 



St. Martin's in the Fields, a Gothic building with 

 a western spire, was erected out of a Parliamentary 

 grant in 1829, the land being a gift by Edward 

 Houghton.'" It was the first Liverpool church to be 

 affected by the Tractarian movement.*'* 



St. Catherine's, Abercromby Square, was conse- 

 crated in January 183 1,*'* a fortnight after St. 

 Bride's.*'* The first church of St. Matthias was 

 built in 1833-4 '° Love Lane, but the site being 

 required by the railway company, the present church 

 in Great Howard Street was built in 1848 ; the old 

 one was accidentally destroyed by fire.'^' St. 

 Saviour's, Falkner Square, was built by subscription 

 in 1839 ; '' ^^^ burnt down in 1900 and rebuilt in 

 1 90 1 on the old plan.*'' In 1 84 1 a congregation which 

 had for some five years met in the chapel in Sir 

 Thomas's Buildings, which they called St. Simon's, 

 acquired a chapel previously used by Presbyterians 

 and Independents, and this was consecrated as 

 St. Simon's.*'' The site being required for Lime 

 Street Station, a new church was in 1848 built close 

 by,'*" and this was taken down and rebuilt in its 

 present position in 1866-72, on an enlargement of 

 the station. 



A building in Hope Street, erected aboat fifteen 

 years earlier for the meetings of the ' Christian 

 Society,' and in 1838 occupied by the Rev. Robert 

 Aitken, an Anglican minister who adopted 'revivalist' 

 methods, was in 1841 acquired for the Established 

 Church and called St. John the Evangelist's."' It 

 was abandoned in 1853, but under the name of 

 Hope Hall is still used for religious and other meet- 

 ings. In 1 841 also the churches of St. Bartholomew 

 and St. Silas were opened.*" St. Alban's, Bevington, 

 dates from 1849-50. 



In 1854 Holy Innocents' in Myrtle Street, pri- 

 marily the chapel of the adjoining orphan asylums, 

 was opened. All Souls', begun in the same year, had 

 as first incumbent Dr. Abraham Hume, one of the 

 founders of the Lancashire and Cheshire Historic 

 Society.'" 'As the population of this parish is 

 mostly Roman Catholic ' it is proposed to abandon 

 the building.'" A Wesleyan chapel was acquired 

 and in 1858 consecrated as St. Columba's ; soon 

 afterwards St. Mary Magdalene's was erected for an 

 object indicated by its dedication ;'" and more 

 recently St. James the Less' **' and St. Titus' '" have 

 been built, the former serving to perpetuate the High 

 Church tradition of St. Martin's when this had re- 

 sumed its old ways.'*' 



The new cathedral is being erected within the 

 township. The Church House in Lord Street provides 

 a central meeting-place and offices for the different 

 societies and committees ; it contains a library also. 



Scottish Presbyterianism was first represented by 

 the Oldham Street Church, opened in 1793 ;**' St. 

 Andrew's in Rodney Street in 1824 ; "" and Mount 

 Pleasant in 1827.'*' Others arose about twenty 

 years later ^ St. George's, Myrtle Street, in 1845 ; '" 

 Canning Street '" and Islington in 1 846,"* and St. 

 Peter's, Silvester Street, in 1849.'" Another was 



Soc. 



153 i 10 Geo. 



829 Tram. Hist. 

 IV, cap. 15. 



880 7 Geo. IV, cap. 51. 



881 This was supposed to be the first 

 instance of the kind in England ; the 

 corporation allowed an additional ,^60 

 salary on account of it ; Stranger in 

 Liverpool. The services were still held in 

 1852. 



882 The vessel was the Tees^ and was 

 presented by the government to the 

 Mariners' Church Society, formed in 1826. 



883 Out of two millions voted ^^20,000 

 was spent on this church. The Act 10 

 Geo. IV, cap. 11, vested it in the mayor 

 and burgesses, and made provision for the 

 division of the parish into districts. 



884 Church Congress Guide. 



885 It exhibited * the Grecian style in 

 its purity and perfection,* according to the 

 opinion of the time. A district was 

 given by a special local Act, 10 Geo. IV, 

 cap. 5i- , , 



888 A district was assigned to it under 

 St. Martin's Church Act. For its en- 

 dowment an Act was passed, i & 2 Will. 

 IV, cap. 49. 



887 Tram. Hist. Soc. iv, 159. 



888 A district was assigned to it under 

 St. Martin's Act, and it was consecrated 

 in 1854. One of the incumbents, the 

 Rev. John Wareing Bardsley, was pro- 

 moted to the bishopric of Sodor and Man 

 In 18S7 and of Carlisle in 1892 ; he died 

 in 1904. 



88» Trans. Hist. Soc. iv, 155. The site 

 was above the centre of the present Lime 

 Street Station. 



S'"' In St. Vincent's Street. 



8" Tram. Hist. Soc. iv, 182. 



8"*^ They were consecrated in 1841 and 

 1843 respectively. 



848 Dr. Hume considered that only an 

 endowed church could minister to the 

 needs of the poorer districts, and pointed 

 to the regular migration of Nonconformist 

 chapels from the poorer to the richer 

 districts, i.e. the building followed the 

 congregation. All Souls' appears to have 

 been built to illustrate his theories. He 

 remained its incumbent until his death 

 in 1884. See Diet. Nat. Biog. 



844 Church Congress Guide, 



848 Districts were assigned under St. 

 Martin's Church Act, 10 Geo. IV. St. 

 Mary Magdalene's was built in 1859 and 

 consecrated in 1862. 



848 Opened January 1S63 ; consecrated, 

 1S73. 



847 Built in 1864 and consecrated in 

 1865. It is proposed to extinguish the 

 incumbency and dispose of the site. 



848 The patronage of many of the new 

 churches is in the hands of trustees. The 

 Crown and the Bishop of Liverpool pre- 

 sent alternately to All Saints', All Souls', 

 St. Alban's, and St. Simon's ; the Bishop 

 alone to Holy Innocents' ; the Bisliop, 

 Archdeacon, and Rector of Liverpool 

 jointly to St. Mary Magdalene's ; the 

 Archdeacon and Rector of Liverpool and 

 the Rector of Walton to St. Titus's ; the 

 Rector of Liverpool to St. Matthew's, St. 

 Matthias's, and St. Stephen's. Mr. H. D. 

 Horsfall has the patronage of St. Paul's. 

 The incumbent of St. David's, the Welsh 

 church, is appointed by trustees jointly 

 with the communicants. 



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845 Previously, it is said, they wor- 

 shipped with the Unitarians, who still re- 

 tained their old title of Presbyterians in 

 consequence of the legal penalties attach- 

 ing to a denial of the Trinity. Oldham 

 Street Church was built by a combination 

 of shareholders or proprietors, among 

 them being (Sir) John Gladstone. 



In 1792 the Scotch Presbyterians used 

 Cockspur Street Chapel, previously the 

 Liverpool cockpit ; Trans. Hist. Soc. v, 3 8, 

 where an account of the many uses of the 

 building may be seen. 



88» A full account of the Scottish 

 churches in Liverpool, by Dr. David 

 Thom, may be seen in Tram. Hist. Soc. 

 ii, 69, 229. 



8" This was built by the Scotch 

 Seceders, afterwards the United Presby- 

 terians ; it replaced a smaller chapel in 

 Gloucester Street, built in 1807 — after- 

 wards St. Simon's. The United Presby- 

 terians used a meeting room in Gill 

 Street about 1868. 



88" The congregation were seceders 

 from St. Andrew's, Rodney Street, under 

 the influence of the Free Church move- 

 ment. 



888 A secession, under the same in- 

 fluence, from Oldham Street Church. 



884 This was connected with the Irish 

 Presbyterians. It is now a Jewish Syna- 

 gogue. 



888 An earlier St. Peter's, built in 

 1841, in Scotland Road, had to be aban- 

 doned owing to the Free Church contro- 

 versy breaking up the congregation ; it is 

 now St. Matthew's ; Trans. Hist. Soc. iv. 

 148. 



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