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.' St. 

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

 church erected in 1867 ;' the incumbents are pre- 

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

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

 acquired.' St. Chad's, Everton \'alley, was opened 

 as a school-church in 1 881, the permanent building 

 soon following. The bishop of Liverpool is patron 

 of both churches. St. Ambrose Church was built in 

 1871.* St. Benedict's, erected in 1887 in succession 

 to an iron church, stands near the old village. The 

 patronage of these churches is vested in bodies of 

 trustees. St. Cuthbert's, on the Anfield side, ^vas 

 built in 1877 ; the Simeon trustees have the patron- 

 age.' St. Poljcarp's, Netherfield Road, was erected 

 in 1886. St. John the Evangelist's, Breck Road, was 

 built in 1 890 as a memorial to Charles Groves, a 

 well-known Liverpool churchman. The patronage of 

 both churches is vested in trustees. 



A Free Church of England has been established in 

 Everton ; its minister is the bishop of the northern 

 diocese. 



Liverpool College, Shaw Street, was established in 

 1841. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have scvcr.il churches — 

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

 Whitefield Road, 1866 ; also a mission chapel and a 

 preaching room. There is a large Welsh-speaking 

 popuhition, 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 1868, 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.' 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 

 building. The same denomination have churches in 

 Shaw Street, built in 1847, .ind in Hrcck Road, c.illed 

 Richmond Chapel, built in 1S64. The Wchh 

 Baptist Chapel, built in l86g, in Village Street, is a 

 migration from Ormond Street, Liverpool, where a 

 congregation had gathered as carl)- as i 799. 



' Lond. Gai. 6 Aug. 1S67, for district. 



» Ibid. 8 Feb. 18-0. 



' Ibid. 4 Aug. 1868, for assignment of 

 district. 



■* Lond, Gjc. 13 Aug, iS~2. 



^ Loud. Gaz. i March, 18-8. There 

 is a mission - hall worked from this 

 church. 



' This represents an older chapel in 

 Leeds Street, Liverpool. 



" For particulars as to Dr. Fabius and his 

 wife Hannah, see Syers, Hist, of E'vcran^ 

 :i-, :^;, 402, 413, They are referred 

 to in \. Blundcll's Diary. Their house 

 at the top of Brunswick Road was after- 

 wards occupied by John and William 

 Gregson in succession. A well by their 

 garden wall is commemorated in the name 

 of a public-house. 



^ Nightingale, L^rcs. y:r:::rf. vi 164- 

 169 ; 1-9, :24-2;-. 



' That ia Shaw Street was built, in 

 1S60, by the Reformed Presbyterians, and 



The Congregational church in Everton Crescent is 

 the result of a separation from the Establishment in 

 1 800 ; Bethesda Chapel in Hotham Street w.is then 

 erected, but in 1837 the congregation moved to the 

 Everton chapel. 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, 

 opened in 1868, being a transplantation of the old 

 Tabernacle in Great Crosshall Street, Liverpool.' 



The Calvinistic Methodists have three places ot 

 worship where service is conducted in Welsh, and two 

 others for English-speaking adherents. The United 

 Free Gospellers have two churches. The Presby- 

 terians have two churches.' There is a Church of 

 Christ in Thirlmere Road. The Salvation Army 

 has a barracks. The Unitarians have a church in 

 Hamilton Road. 



Everton is considered an extremely Protestant 

 district, but the Roman Catholics have several churches 

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

 Jesuits, who had served Liverpool during the times of 

 persecution, were able to return in 1 840, when land 

 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.'" 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 1 861 to 

 1865, and has since been practically rebuilt. St. 

 George's Industrial School adjoins it." 



The Mohammedans have a mosque in Brougham 

 Terrace. 



WALTON 



Waleton, Dom. Bk. ; Walton, 1 246. 



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

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

 ley ; it has a length of over 4 miles and an area of 

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

 the border of Aintree; the Gildhouses were also at 

 the north end, and along the southern border from 

 north-west to south-east are the districts called 

 Spellow, Anfield, Walton Breck, and Newsham ; 



that in Queen's Road, in 1861-3, W the 

 L'nited Presbyterians. Both now belong 

 to the Presbyterian Ch. of Engl. 



^'' Liverfo-J Cath. Ann. 1901, and 

 Xa-verian, the monthly church mazagine. 

 The spire was added in 1882, and the 

 Lady Chapel in 1888. 



" Cath. Ann. 1889 ; with a view. In 

 Syers, Hiit. of E-viri',n a deUiled history of 

 the estate is given. From this it appears 

 that the site belonged to Henry Halsall, 

 one of the 1,^00-ycars' leaseholders of 

 J7i6- George Campbell, a Liverpool 

 merchant, in 1-5S bought the land and 

 built the first St. Domingo House. On 

 his death, John Crosbic, another merchant, 

 bought it for ,f3,Sco. After his bank- 

 ruptcy It was purchased bv John Sparline 

 a merchant ; he built the great hou=e 

 still existing, in 1 -93. At the summit of 

 the hill the prospect is extensive, and 

 formerly was beautiful. He died in 1 800 

 and his heirs procured an Act enabling 

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them to sell the estate, in spite of his 

 care to preserve it in his family. William 

 Ewart bought it in 181 1, and next year 

 sold it to the Government for barracks, 

 to the great annoyance of the residents 

 of Everton ; Syers, op. cit. 109-1 1. It was 

 soon afterwards sold in lots by the Barracks 

 Commissioners. Alexander Macgregor 

 acquired the house, which for some time 

 was used as a school; ibid. 167. In 

 1841 it was purchased by Bishop Brown, 

 vicar-apostolic of the Lanes, district, 

 and opened as St. Edward's Coll. in the 

 following year. A new wing was built 

 in 1874-5. An observatory was formed 

 in 1886. The college is for training 

 candidates for the priesthood. 



'2 Cath. Ann. 



l» Including 1 1 acres of inland water ; 

 Census Rep. of ,90,. A small part of 

 the township, around Newsham House, 

 was transferred to the West Derby local 

 board district in 186S. 



