Welsh Presbyterian Church, Liverpool
The Welsh Presbyterian Church is a disused church on Princes Road in the Toxteth district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is a redundant church of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. Because of its tall steeple, the church has been nicknamed the "Welsh Cathedral", or "Toxteth Cathedral", although it was never an actual cathedral.
In 2019, it received National Lottery Stage 1 funding to become a community hub after thirty years abandonment.
History
The church was built between 1865 and 1867, and designed by the local architects W. & G. Audsley. At the time it was built, because of its steeple rising to a height of, it was the highest building in Liverpool. In 1982, when it was no longer used as a Welsh Presbyterian Church, it was sold to the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, a religious organisation with headquarters in Nigeria. They ceased to use the church in the 1990s, it became vacant, was vandalised, and became derelict. There were plans for the leasehold to be acquired by a partnership of the Merseyside Building Preservation Trust and the Heritage Trust for the North West. As of 2013 the Merseyside Building Preservation Trust is undertaking a feasibility study with the intention to make a bid for a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.Naming
The denomination was created in 1811 and formalized in 1823 as the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists.See Welsh Methodist revival and Calvinistic Methodists.
From 1928 on, the denomination was also known as the Presbyterian Church in Wales.
So this church, and other buildings may be called Methodist, Calvinist or Presbyterian, but belong to the same establishment.