Toxteth Congregational (new) - Aigburth Road
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This church is now demolished and replaced by a medical centre.  It sat at the corner of Aigburth Road and Ullet Road (at the Dingle end).

The congregation moved from the old church to the new church which opened in 1871and was erected by public subscription during the pastorate of Rev. James Wisehart.  Some of the ornamental work inside was the work of the minister, Rev. Mark Simon who 'was a stone and wood carver of no mean order'. The church was designed by H. Vale who was a leading Liverpool architect at the time.

On the railings outside was an ornamental drinking fountain erected to the memory of a member of the Rathbone family who died in 1860. This is clearly marked on the 1905 OS map.

The church lasted exactly 100 years being demolished in 1971.

Griffiths (1907) also notes that before the erection of the church, this corner was occupied by a mansion and grounds of Mr C Tayleur's ' Parkfield Estate' which extended down Ullet Road on one side and to Lark Lane on the other. Dickenson's Dingle ran through the grounds. The old stone lodge of the estate still stood in 1907 'next to the church on the main road'  and a portion of one of the farm buildings was found in one of the back gardens in adjacent Sandringham Drive.

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