March 2005

This sits just yards away from the Toxteth boundary.

This church originated in 1897 when the Lodge Lane congregation leased the old Quaker Meeting house in Smithdown Road. When the lease expired in 1903, it was intended to build a new church near Sefton Park Station, but as the Grove Street Circuit had already embarked on the Elm Hall Drive project, nearby, a site was secured on Wellington Avenue. The church was built in 1904/5 and It thus appears on the 1906 map. It was largely the gift of Mr. Cory Monkhouse. The Lawrence Road church united with it in 1954.  A fine Italiante building it has saved by being taken over by the local Sikh community for use as a community centre.

The Methodists now worship in the old Sunday school buildings, seen on the left of the picture.