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Georgian Quarter, Liverpool
The Georgian Quarter (sometimes known as Canning or the Canning Georgian Quarter) is an area on the eastern edge of Liverpool city centre, England, characterised by almost entirely residential Georgian architecture. Parts of the district are also included in Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter. It borders the rest of the Knowledge Quarter to the north, the district of Toxteth to the south, Edge Hill to the east and Ropewalks, Chinatown and the Baltic Triangle to the west. The name 'Canning' comes from one of its principal thoroughfares, Canning Street, which is named after George Canning, (1770–1827), a British politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister.
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Church of St Philip Neri, Liverpool
The Church of St Philip Neri in Liverpool is home to the Roman Catholic chaplaincy of the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. It was built to a Byzantine Revival design by P. S. Gilby between 1914 and 1920. There are exterior friezes depicting the Last Supper and the Virgin and Child. The latter, over the door onto Catherine Street, is inscribed with the two titles given to Mary at the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD: Latin Deipara and Greek Theotokos (God-bearer). There is also a large stone inscribed in Latin set in the wall bearing the name of Thomas (Whiteside), Archbishop of Liverpool 8 October 1916, which dates from the time the church was constructed.
The parish grew from the school named "The Institute", which opened in 1853 in nearby Hope Street. It was visited by the founder of the English Oratorians, Cardinal John Henry Newman of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Edgbaston, Birmingham. The parish and later the church were dedicated to Saint Philip Neri in honour of Newman, since Philip Neri had founded the original Oratory church in Rome. Parish registers of the church dating as far back as 1864 can be inspected at the Liverpool Record Office.
In the 1950s, the then priest Fr John Garvin, transformed an adjoining bombsite into a Spanish garden, El Jardin de Nuestra Señora ('the Garden of Our Lady'). The church became the chaplaincy for the universities in Liverpool in September 2001 when the old Liverpool University chaplaincy relocated from its previous home on the cathedral precinct, opposite the University of Liverpool Guild of Students, on Mount Pleasant. The church, which is a Grade II* listed building, recently received a grant of £72,000 to help remedy water ingress damage to its mosaic tiling.
The church has six altars:
An altar in the main nave.
The original high altar.
An altar with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
An altar with devotion to the Virgin Mary.
A side altar with devotion to Saint Joseph.
The Church also has an altar with a devotion to Saint Gerard at the back of the main church space.
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St Bride's Church, Liverpool
St Bride's Church, Canning, Liverpool, England, is a Church of England parish church.
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German Church, Liverpool
The German Church (German: Deutsche Kirche) in Liverpool is in Bedford Street South/ Canning Street and is part of the German speaking churches of North England.
The North of England German Protestant churches are members of the "Synod of German-speaking Lutheran, Reformed and United Congregations in Great Britain" and come under the care of the overseas department of the Protestant Church in Germany.
Services in German are held twice a month on the first (4:00 pm) and third Sundays (11:00 am).
Regular Groups include a Faith discussion group, Wirral Circle and a Toddler Play Group.
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Black Merchant Seamen War Memorial
The Black Merchant Seamen War Memorial is a sandstone stone memorial, It is situated in Falkner Square, Liverpool. The stone is from the Liverpool Seamen's Hostel with a bronze plaque dedicated to all the Black Seamen who served during World War II. It was unveiled in 1993 on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.