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October 2004
This opened, as the United Methodist
Free Church in 1871 with seating for 700. It was built by a combined congregation of Free Methodists from
the Ebenezer Chapel on Mill Street
(which was sold to the Toxteth Tabernacle) and Methodists from the Herculaneum Chapel (located at the junction of Wellington Road
and Grafton Street).
David Lewis records that Silas K. Hocking ('Her Benny') was later a minister here.
In
1907 it changed name to the 'United Methodist Church' and
later to the 'Wellington Road Methodist Church'.
It
closed in 1932 after Methodist Union and
was then taken over by the Bethel Evangelistic movement which developed it into
a Baptist church. It is still known locally as "The Bethel".
The building still stands but is in a poor state of repair, crumbling, fenced off - it looks as if demolition is not far away, even since 2000 the building has deteriorated substantially.
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