The full title is The Welsh Independent Chapel.  It was built in 1837 but this bald statement is not complete as explained below. It is found between numbers 86 and 94 Beaufort Street according to the 1858 Post Office directory. This places it between Hill Street and Warwick Street junctions. Later directories place it almost at the Hill Street junction and it has provisionally been placed at one of the two most likely buildings on the map.

The 1860 Gore shows a Bethel Union at No 88, which fits, however it does not appear again after the late 1860s.  By 1911 there is no trace of a chapel at any of the addresses between 86 and 94.

The reason for this vanishing act lies in the history of the congregation. The church began life as the Great Crosshall Street Tabernacle in the 1820s (1). They moved premises to Watkinson Street in 1827 where the congregation gathered in a room over a stable. In 1828 they had moved again and they occupied a roofed-over yard in Greenland Street. These premises were subsequently converted to a church which opened for divine worship in 1828. (2) Their success meant that they then moved to the Bethel in Beaufort Street which is the subject of my page here. The church in Beaufort Street opened in 1837.

Subsequently, continued success and the desire to be less remote meant that in 1867 they moved yet again to a new, purpose built church, in the heart of the toxteth community, on Park Road. The Welsh Congregational Church at the junction with Northumberland Street was the final triumph of this congregation.

(1) David Lewis, Churches of Liverpool, Bluecoat Press

(2) A History of the County of Lancashire: Volume 3 (1907)