Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial
Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial

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An octagonal tempietto-like structure with eight Doric columns, set on three steps and surmounted by an ogee tiled dome. This memorial commemorates Renshaw Street Chapel which was on the site now occupied by Central Hall, Liverpool.
Title

Renshaw Street Chapel Memorial

Date

1905

Medium

stone

Accession number

L3_MH_S297

Work type

Monument

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Listing date

14/03/75

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

Access when garden is open.

Inscription description

plaque, NE face towards the Mount Pleasant entrance to the gardens: THIS MONUMENT / IS ERECTED AS A MEMORIAL OF / RENSHAW STREET CHAPEL / BUILT IN 1811 / FOR THE WORSHIP / OF ALMIGHTY GOD / / ALSO / IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF / THOSE WHO MINISTERED THEREIN / AMONG WHOM WERE / JOHN HAMILTON THOM / WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING / CHARLES BEARD / / AND IN MEMORY OF / THE WORSHIPPERS / WITHIN ITS WALLS / AND OF / WILLIAM ROSCOE / JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE / AND ALL WHO WERE LAID TO REST / IN THIS GROUND / / THE FAITHFUL OF EVERY LAND / WHO CHRISTS OWN RULE OBEY / THE HOLY DEAD OF EVERY TIME / THE CHURCH OF CHRIST ARE THEY; tiled panel, SE left-hand face, approaching from Mount Pleasant: SEVILLA EN HOMENAJEA / JOSE BLANCO WHITE / 24 MAYO 1948; oval City of Liverpool plaque: CITY OF Liverpool / JOSPEH BLANCO WHITE / 1775 - 1814 / SPANISH WRITER AND POLITICAL / EXILE WAS BURIED / NEAR HERE.; plaque, SW far side from Mount Pleasant: THE CHAPEL STOOD / TO THE SOUTH OF THIS SOT / FACING RENSHAW STREET / / THE MONUMENTAL TABLETS / WITHIN IT / ARE PLACED IN THE CLOISTERS / OF ULLET ROAD CHURCH / TO WHICH THE CONGREGATION REMOVED / IN 1899 / / THE SITE OF / THE CHAPEL AND GRAVEYARD / WAS SOLD TO THE / CORPORATION OF Liverpool / WHO MADE THIS GARDEN / PRESERVING A RECORD / OF THE GRAVES / AND THE INSCRIPTIONS THEREON / WHICH MAY BE ALSO BE SEEN / AT THE CHURCH / / THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED IN 1905 / BY ONE WHO WORSHIPPED HERE / FOR SIXTY YEARS

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Located at

Mount Pleasant, Liverpool

L3 5TB

Located in Roscoe Gardens, on the right-hand side of Mount Pleasant, approaching from Renshaw Street, between Newington and Benson Street.