Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC Church; History, Records and Information

Our Lady of Mount Carmel
High Park Street
Liverpool
L8

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a large and imposing Roman Catholic
church built in 1878 to designs by James O'Byrne. It is a fine red-brick
church with sandstone Decorated Gothic details. Nikolaus Pevsner
praised the three doorways, whose 'quadrant jambs and arches dying
into them' were typical of 'the most progressive work of the last
quarter of the nineteenth century/ Also on High Park Street, behind
the modern St Philemon's Church, there stood a Free Welsh Chapel
which was built in 1905. This area has been extensively redeveloped,
with the Victorian terracing being replaced with more open properties
and landscaping, and no trace of the chapel remains.

The above description comes from 
'The Churches of Liverpool' 
by David Lewis
Published by The Bluecoat Press
ISBN 1 872568 76 9

© 2001 David Lewis 

(This book also has many fine photographs of Liverpool churches)

Reproduced with the permission of:
Colin Wilkinson of
The Bluecoat Press 
Bluecoat Chambers 
School Lane
Liverpool
L1 3BX

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Extracts from Archdiocese of Liverpool Directories:

Built:		1865:1878

Consecrated:	5 September 1951

Architect:	J O'Beirne



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Early registers have been deposited at the Liverpool Record Office

Record Office ref.:	282 CAR	
	
Registers:		Bap.		1865 - 1902 *
			Mat.		1867 - 1910 *
			Def.		1865 - 1903
			Conf.		1868 - 1912 
			Others		1887 - 1947

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Information online: 	Marriages at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 1867 - 1884

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* ORIGINAL REGISTERS NOT AVAILABLE IF MICROFILM COPY ARE HELD BY
  THE RECORD OFFICE. MANY REGISTERS WERE MICROFILMED IN THE 1940'S
  AS A PRECAUTION AGAINST LOSS DUE TO ENEMY BOMBING. THE QUALITY
  OF SOME OF THESE COPIES IS NOT GREAT.

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