Holy Trinity, Wavertree - Church of England
Church Road,
Wavertree
Lancashire
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War Memorial
Cemeteries
It has a massive graveyard with tombs dating back to 1700s, this is now the responsibility of Liverpool City Council and is maintained by them. There is also a war memorial from 1920 honouring the dead of WWI with an additional dedication to the casualties of WWII. (no individual names are given)Church History
This church was designed by John Hope and dates from 1794, it is a Georgian style church, but because of necessary repairs, a part of it was re-modelled in 1911 in Neo-Grec style by Charles Reilly, professer of Architecture at Liverpool University.Church Records
Due to a fire in 1961 some of the church records were destroyed, the Records Office (William Brown Street Liverpool L3 8EW) hold all but the most recent ones.Whilst every effort has been made to record exact details of record office and library holdings you are recommended to check with them before visiting to ensure that they do hold the records and years you wish to examine. Similarly check with transcript publishers to ensure they cover the records and years you require before making a purchase.
Maps
The church is located at OS grid reference SJ3917089020. You can see this on maps provided by:
- this church marked on a Google map. (Use this to report a corrected location)
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- OldMaps
- StreetMap
- Open StreetMap
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Magic
- Vision of Britain
- English Jurisdictions in 1851
- Google maps showing nearby churches with satellite image option.
This site provides historical information about churches, other places of worship and cemeteries. It has no connection with the churches etc. themselves. For current information you should contact them directly.
Help required
The information provided has been obtained from a number of sources and although every effort is made to avoid errors, just a few may be present. So if there are any please let us know. [Use the link at the bottom of this page].We do not currently have the following information, and if you can provide it then please do so:
- We think we have the exact location of the church.
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- Have the Monumentals Inscriptions on the gravestones been transcribed and published, and by whom?
- Have you any details about the history of the church? Old directories frequently contain such information, and if you can transcribe such information and let us have it, we can add it to this page.
- Who holds the records of baptisms, marriages or burials? Have any transcripts of the registers been published?
If you have any further information about the church that you think would be useful to other researchers then do get in touch.