St Anthony of Padua Church, Liverpool
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| location = Mossley Hill, Liverpool
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| denomination = Roman Catholic
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| religious institute = Order of Friars Minor Conventual
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| website = {{official|https://saintanthonyofpadualiverpool.co.uk/}}
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| founded date = {{start date|1926}}
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| architect = Anthony Ellis
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| style = Romanesque Revival
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| groundbreaking = 1931
| completed date = 1932
| construction cost = £16,500
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| deanery = Liverpool South[http://www.liverpoolcatholic.org.uk/archdiocese Deaneries] from Archdiocese of Liverpool, retrieved 18 May 2021
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St Anthony of Padua Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Mossley Hill, Liverpool. It was built from 1931 to 1932 by the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Conventual. It is on Queens Drive opposite Liverpool College. The church was one of the first started by the friars coming from New York in the re-establishment of the Conventual Friars in England after the Reformation.
History
=Foundation=
In 1906, the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, the Conventual Franciscan friars came to England. Two Maltese friars, Fr Bonaventure Sceberras and Fr Roger Azzopardi started a mission in Portishead, Somerset that became St Joseph's Church. In 1910, the friars started St Anthony of Padua Church, Rye in East Sussex.[https://www.thegreyfriars.org/history History] from thegreyfriars.org, retrieved 18 May 2021 In 1926, friars came from Syracuse, New York to Mossley Hill in Liverpool. The site of the church was bought from Liverpool City Council and the adjacent Elmsley House was bought to be a friary and parish hall.Historic England, [https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/mossley-hill-st-anthony-of-padua/ Mossley Hill – St Anthony of Padua], Taking Stock, retrieved 18 May 2021
=Construction=
On 7 November 1926, a temporary church was opened by the Archbishop of Liverpool Frederick Keating. In 1931, building work started on St Anthony of Padua Church. In 1932, the church was opened and consecrated.[https://www.thegreyfriars.org/liverpool St. Anthony of Padua - Mossley Hill, Liverpool] from thegreyfriars.org, retrieved 18 May 2021 The architect was Anthony Ellis and the cost of the church was £16,500. In the construction of the church, the friars told Ellis to use the same basilica plan as Assumption Church in Syracuse. Assumption Church was built in 1859 and is the mother church of the Conventual Franciscans in the northeast United States.[https://www.olaprovince.org/about-us/history/ History] from olaprovince.org, retrieved 18 May 2021
=Developments=
In 1933, an organ was installed in St Anthony of Padua Church, it came from the German Church on Renshaw Street in Liverpool. From 1947 to 1955, the friary was a novitiate for the Conventual Friars in Britain. In the 1950s, a marble reredos and painted murals were added. From 1962 to 1963, the murals in the apsidal sanctuary were replaced by ones painted by Giuseppe Lerario OFM, which depict Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the pope and bishops of the Second Vatican Council as well as murals of St Anthony of Padua and St Francis of Assisi.
Parish
The friars continue to serve the parish.Alan Weston, [https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/meet-liverpools-real-life-father-10673437 Meet Liverpool's real-life Father Teds, Mossley Hill's Franciscan friars], Liverpool Echo, 1 January 2016, retrieved 18 May 2021 There are four Sunday Masses in the church at 6:00pm on Saturday and at 08:00am,10:00 am and 12:00 pm on Sunday.
Church and friary
File:Friary of St Francis, Mossley Hill.jpg|Friary
File:St Anthony of Padua, Mossley Hill side.jpg|Side of church
See also
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|St Anthony of Padua, Mossley Hill}}
- {{official|https://saintanthonyofpadualiverpool.co.uk/}}
- [https://www.thegreyfriars.org/liverpool St. Anthony of Padua - Mossley Hill, Liverpool] from TheGreyFriars.org
- [http://www.liverpoolcatholic.org.uk/Parish-Information?parishID=23 St Anthony of Padua] from Archdiocese of Liverpool
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Category:Roman Catholic churches in Liverpool
Category:Romanesque Revival church buildings in England
Category:1926 establishments in England
Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1932
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom
Category:Conventual Franciscan churches in the United Kingdom