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no picture is yet found
though
there is a distant view in the
Herculaneum Chapel file
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1841 St. Thomas's Church (originally St. Thomas's
in the Fields) was built and endowed in 1840 by John Gladstone, a merchant of Liverpool,
it was consecrated on 1 December 1841. I know little of its history
although it does figure in John
Isaac's 1859 view.
1937 The church is closed.
1939 The parishes of St.
Thomas and St. John the Baptist were amalgamated some time in 1939 to
form the new parish of St. John the Baptist with St. Thomas.
1940 In June 1940
Liverpool City Council decided to buy the church as the housing committee
required the site. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners were allowed to remove the altar, oak paneling and other effects
from the church. The completion of the sale was delayed, and it was not
until after WW2, in December 1946 that Liverpool Corporation actually acquired the site.
1946 According to the Liverpool Daily Post, 21 December 1946, the church
"will be demolished within nine months". The site was used for
Warwick Gardens although these were erected in 1938. Perhaps the
war years contain the explanation for the disparity of dates.
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