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This mention from 'Picture of Liverpool: A Strangers Guide'
(From the old-liverpool
website - with thanks) published in 1834
describes and localises this now-demolished church: "Mount
Pleasant, formerly called Martindale-hill, which was celebrated in a
poem written by William Roscoe. At the higher part on the right hand is
a newly erected chapel belonging to the congregation of Scoth Seceders.
It has a neat stone front, with a portico of the Doric Order. A little
lower down on the same side are the Wellington Rooms, the front of
which is of the Corinthian order." The Wellington
Rooms are what later generations came to know as 'The Irish Centre'
on Mount Pleasant, opposite Hope Street and the church, shown on the 1905-08 OS series
of Liverpool, sat virtually next door but separated by Great Orford Street.
Mount Pleasant Chapel
was opened in 1827 as a Scotch Secession Church, its architect being
Samuel Rowland. Its members were Scottish immigrants who had met, since
1809, in Gloucester Street Chapel, (built in 1807 on the site of Lime Street station,
this later became St. Simon's before demolition).
 The illustration is
by C and G Pyne, said to be 1831, it
is "Dedicated
to Dr. Stewart & his Congregation
". (The Reverend J Stewart D.D. is recorded as the first preacher). The church is
described as having "a handsome stone front, with four Doric pillars, and an upper
range of five round-headed windows".
This became a United Presbyterian Church in 1847 and, in 1877, a
Presbyterian Church of England. The Chapel was closed in 1939 and
destroyed by bombing in 1941. The site was sold in 1945.
(LRO)
LRO holds the following records:-
Records of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church of England,
1825-1919
1. Relating to the Chapel's period as a Scotch Secession Church, 1825-1847:
-1. Correspondence etc. concerning the construction of the Scotch Church, 11 docs., 1825 - 1829.
-2. Papers relating to shares, 4 docs., 1825.
-/3. Accounts, bills, etc. 50 docs., 1825 - 1837
-4 Printed Records, 4 items, 1827 - 1830
2. Relating to the Chapel's period as a United Presbyterian Church, 1847 - 1877. 9 docs., 1852 - 1874
3. Relating to the Chapel's period as a Presbyterian Church of England from 1877. 13 docs., 1877 - 1919 |
