Welsh Presbyterian Church, Liverpool

The church was built between 1865 and 1867, and designed by the local architects W. & G. Audsley. There were plans for the leasehold to be acquired by a partnership of the Merseyside Building Preservation Trust (MBPT) and the Heritage Trust for the North West. In 2013 the MBPT undertook a feasibility study with the intention to make a bid for a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. In 2019, almost £3 million was granted in Stage 1 funding towards transforming the building into a community hub, though the project was estimated to require upwards of £10 million. In 2021, it was estimated that, without intervention, the building would be unsalvageable within two or three years. ==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 (or actually Disestablishment). ==Architecture==

The church is constructed in rock-faced rubble, and has a patterned slate roof. It is in High Victorian Gothic style. The tower has angle buttresses, which have niches at the top. The bell openings are paired and louvred. On top of the tower are pinnacles and a broach spire with arcading and lucarnes. Attached to the south transept is a canted stair tower. On top of the crossing is a slate flèche. Inside the church are galleries at the west end and in the transepts, which are carried on marble piers. The nave has a barrel roof supported by wall piers. ==See also==