Report - Welsh Presbyterian Church - Liverpool - Apr 19

[Bikin Glynn]

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The church was built between 1865 and 1867, and designed by the local architects W. & G. Audsley. At the time it was built, because of its steeple rising to a height of 200 feet (61 m), it was the highest building in Liverpool. In 1982, when it was no longer used as a Welsh Presbyterian Church.

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The denomination was created in 1811 and formalized in 1823 as the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. See Welsh Methodist revival and Calvinistic Methodists. From 1928 on, the denomination was also known as the Presbyterian Church in Wales. So this church, and other buildings may be called Methodist, Calvinist or Presbyterian, but belong to the same establishment

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The church is constructed in rock-faced rubble, and has a patterned slate roof. It is in High Victorian Gothic style. The church consists of a nave and transepts, giving it a T-shaped plan. The tower has angle buttresses, which have niches at the top. The bell openings are paired and louvred. On top of the tower are pinnacles and a broach spire with arcading and lucarnes.

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The church fell out of use in 1993 &is now in a sorry state

Thanks For looking
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[HughieD]

Nice set mate. Went to look at this after you went and they'd upped the ante in terms of the fencing etc so was just externals only for me.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Nice set mate. Went to look at this after you went and they'd upped the ante in terms of the fencing etc so was just externals only for me.

Thanks its quite photogenic but amazing how far its gone since the 90s

 

[Calamity Jane]

Very nice. I bet the view from up the steeple is great. What a lovely piece of architecture

 

[Down and beyond]

What a lovely building ! Hope it gets saved or at least salvaged, is a strange material for a building that is one sure thing !

 

[Bikin Glynn]

What a lovely building ! Hope it gets saved or at least salvaged, is a strange material for a building that is one sure thing !

Thanks dude, it is nice & often overlooked for a more popular explore close by. I believe they have something in place trying to save it but Ill be surprised if it doesn't fall in on itself

 

[Down and beyond]

Thanks dude, it is nice & often overlooked for a more popular explore close by. I believe they have something in place trying to save it but Ill be surprised if it doesn't fall in on itself

That’s good if it does fall in would rather see a reclaim yard buy the materials and use them in a garden folly like mine so then they get a new life