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Sorry but I still need a picture for this church.
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This Church stood on Parliament Street
close to the junction with Beaufort Street (Bedford) Street.
It
was designed by George Williams and opened on August 8th, 1858, two years after
the parish was established and a year after the foundation stone
was laid, on 1 December 1857, by the Reverend Hugh McNeil. Even when it was opened the district was considered
a poor one being a mixture of industrial properties and low grade
housing. Old records show it was also a red light district with
Ashwell Street (right behind the church) having twenty two
brothels.
The first vicar was Rev. Henry Postance who was
appointed to the parish of 'Holy Trinity, Toxteth Park' in February 1856. At
this time the parish did not have a church and it was not until the following
year that a site was found. Rev Postance was clearly an industrious man and not only established
a Church of England (later council) school in Ashwell Street (1860)
but also a ragged school in Grafton
Street, one in Beaufort
Street and a Girls' Industrial School, Nile Street in 1870.
James
Picton gives our only clue to its appearance describing the church
as being 'of plain brick hemmed in between the houses'. According
to the Register of Services 1932-1940, the last service was held in Holy Trinity
Church on 24 March 1940. The parishes and benefices of Holy Trinity and St.
James with St. Matthew were then amalgamated to form the new parish of St. James
with St. Matthew and Holy Trinity, Toxteth. The church of St. James with St.
Matthew became the parish church of the new parish. In 1943 the "late Church
of Holy Trinity" was advertised for sale "as a property suitable for
development". It is said to have been
later demolished however Ken Bray offers an fuller, first-hand version
of its eventual fate.
"My parents previously lived
in Parliament Street and attended Holy Trinity Church – I
think that the church was destroyed by bombing during the war, so
what was being offered for sale (as reported in your notes) may
simply have been a development site. From my earliest childhood
memories what you show on your map as Holy Trinity’s location was
a razed site and one could walk across open ground from Ashwell
Street to Parliament Street."
1970s housing now occupies the site.
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