); the area was mostly rural at the time. Fr Byrne, O.S.B. This was removed from the church and is now stored at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.The statue of St Peter which was in the church, seated (in marble and bronze) is now displayed in the Crypt Chapel at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. References to the photos include photos around 352PSP/32/296/25 et al"Coping With The Blitz - St Peter's, Seel Street, Liverpool 1940-41". This is remarkable as it is such a notable change in the Parish history. The author of "A Century and a half..." is unaware of any part of the Presbytery being used for the 1818 extension, though the authors of the Bazaar Handbook may have simply have made an error. Archibald MacDonald, who departed this life on the 29 July 1814, aged 78 years. Photographs which were taken in May 1941 by Dom Louis D’Andria, OSB, show significant damage to the Presbytery St Peter's Church Guildhall was located on Park Lane, and was completely destroyed during a bombing raid in 1941. The Church of St.Mary Walton was originally the parish church of Liverpool but Childwall can boast of having the oldest standing church. John Moffat, the architect, saw the first stone of St. Peter’s Church laid, and the entire cost when finished was £4000. There are correspondence with various builders and the War Damage Commission. The church was replaced as cathedral of Liverpool by the current The church's records are stored in the Liverpool Records Office.The building was designed by John Moffat and was erected to the South of Church Street. 1654 saw the first resolution about making Liverpool a parish separate from Walton. While a new chapel was being built, under the guise of a warehouse, by a wealthy merchant, named Pippard, the Catholics met stealthily for worship in the house of a Mr. and Mrs. Green in Dale Street, and the only friends of the proscribed ones were two large-hearted and tolerant Presbyterians who lived in adjoining houses, and who helped the Papists to gain, without observation, access to their temporary place of meeting. The first Oratorio to be performed in Liverpool was Handel's Messiah and was performed in St Peter's Church.. On 1 July 1880, J. C. Ryle was appointed as the first Bishop of Liverpool at which point St Peter's became the pro-cathedral of Liverpool. The situation is neatly summed in "A Century and a Half - Notes on St. Peter's (Seel Street) 1788-1938" by an author who clearly has access to the Parish Records: Liverpool, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1659-1812. It would appear then that there are at least two extensions to the church, one ~ 1818, and a later more significant one ~ 1845.
Until 1699 St. Nicholas was regarded as a chapel of ease to Walton Church. into the road….I saw our roof definitely on fire.’ In his letter of 9 May 1941 D’Andria tells Fr Abbot (i.e. In 1758, the chapel in Edmund Street had been destroyed during a riot, and a new building took its place in Lumber Street, of which no trace remains, its place now being held in Highfield Street by the fine Church planned by Augustus Welby Pugin, when that great designer's influence was beginning to be felt in the revival of Gothic architecture. It is recorded in the St Peter’s was damaged a number of times during the Blitz of 1940-1941. The Register for Baptisms at St Peter 1704 - 1737 with Surname Index. It is also worth noting that the author of "A Century and a half..." again quotes Allanson's volumes regarding the extension around 1818 which state that "gallery enlarged and organ built over the altar." In 1718 it was found necessary to enlarge the church further. "1817 - Opening of New extension of St Peter's, previously a part of Presbytery. In 1736, Father Hardisty, S. J., built the first Catholic Chapel, in Edmund Street. This data collection contains Church of England baptism, marriage, and burial records from parishes in the Liverpool area for the years 1659-1812. These include correspondence showing differences of opinion between the Parish Priest, Fr Dawson, OSB, and some of those undertaking work which led (on one occasion in January 1945) to Fr Dawson throwing some men off site.