there is now a very distant view available in the coltart road file and a second partial view in one of the Lodge Lane files

With thanks to Philip Mayer for sending this picture.

Almost to 1880 Lodge Lane remained undeveloped.  As housing began to encroach on the area so the small Wesleyan congregation which had been meeting in an old building called 'Jeffery's House' realised that a larger, permanent church was needed.

A family of provision merchants called Fowler, from Victoria Street gave money and land on condition that the church was 'not Gothic in style' and was 'not in debt when it opened'.  Work started in 1883 and the church opened in 1885. It was Italianate in design (which was by Ellison) with two large towers facing onto Lodge Lane between Cedar Grove and Lime Grove.

In 1886 a stand was erected in front of the church to enable people to see Queen Victoria, as she passed in an open carriage down Lodge Lane, on her visit to the Liverpool Exhibition, at Edge Hill.

In 1964 the congregation merged with the Princes Road Methodist Church. The Lodge Lane church was demolished in 1966.