In the above picture Parliament Street runs top left to bottom right, Greenland Street runs across the lower left-hand corner. I have tinted the church to make it obvious. It is thought that the building just behind the church is the original Southern and Toxteth Hospital.

This church stood to  the junction of Flint Street and Parliament Street (being after number 3 Parliament St. in 1858 PO directory), it was close to Challinor Street and Jordan Street. I have coloured in the church on part of an 1855 map kindly sent to me by Richard Hawes. The parish was established in 1844 although the register dates from 1841, according to Gore and St Barnabas itself was consecrated in 1841.

The first incumbent was one Dr. Nolan.  There were three incumbencies during the next twenty years. In 1858 the incumbent is the Rev. William Leveson M.A. The marriage here of James McGrievy  and Mary Hayden in 1858 shows that  Wilfred Leveson married the couple, however as the certificate in the national index is transcribed and indexed incorrectly, (the LIverpool copy is correct) so this too may be incorrect.

By 1871, when the Rev. C. de B. Winslow became vicar, the parish had become a poor one and was said to be 'greatly diminished in population'. With falling inner-city congregations in this area (this was happening in the older sections of Liverpool even in the 19th C), the parish was declining. An Act of Parliament, 1892, authorised the sale of St. Barnabas Church, Upper Parliament Street with its site, and the erection of a new church in Anfield. The parish was combined with that of St. Michael, in Upper Pitt Street, in 1893.

By 1894 the church was being pulled down and it was taken down, stone by stone, soon after this and the stone re-used, to help with the building of St Simon and St Jude on Anfield Road.  Along with the stone, went the organ and church plate and the benefice. Today no trace remains of the church and I am told that the site is a scrapyard.

The search for the original St Barnabas has been great fun due to by an abundant internet presence for St Barnabas in Allerton/Mossely Hill varyingly given as Penny Lane, Cramond Avenue, Smithdown Road, Smithdown Place, Allerton Road.  That church is technically not within the original boundaries of the old Toxteth Park though, as Paul Young has kindly pointed out, part of its present parish is within Toxteth. This is however not the church referred to here.

Another St Barnabas also existed on Smithdown Road opposite the Tram / Bus sheds and close to Penny Lane, this was genuinely within Toxteth andit is presumed that this would have had a Parish broadly similar to the extant St Barnabas.