Anglican Church Diocese of Liverpool No. 601

St Philips is an Anglican church originally in the diocese of Chester, later diocese of Liverpool.

 

St. Philip’s church, which was originally in Hardman Street near Liverpool city centre. Its history begins when the church was consecrated on the 29th of October 1816 by the Bishop of Chester. On the 3rd of November of that year the church opened for services.

 

The church appears to have flourished for some years, in fact, in 1880, the first Bishop of Liverpool preached his first sermon in the new Diocese at St. Philips. However in 1882 it was stated that ‘owing to the conversion of numerous dwelling houses nearby into shops and the erection and enlargement of the other churches in the neighbourhood, attendance at the service was small’. It was also stated that the church was in a bad state of repair and the graves and tombstones were dilapidated and there was no money available to put matter right or pay the minister, clerk, sexton and organist.

 

Later in 1882 an act was passed to authorise the sale of the existing church and purchase a site for a new church. The church and churchyard were auctioned on the 25th of July 1882. The old church becoming a dance hall and later a Christian Science church (see Liverpool Post and Mercury  15 December 1925).