Church of St Philip Neri

Liverpool, United Kingdom

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Built between 1914 and 1920 in Byzantine Revival style by architect P. S. Gilby, the Church of St Philip Neri in Liverpool serves as the Roman Catholic chaplaincy for the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. The church's exterior features friezes depicting the Last Supper and the Virgin and Child; the latter, positioned above the Catherine Street entrance, bears inscriptions in Latin and Greek honouring titles bestowed upon Mary at the Council of Ephesus. A stone tablet commemorates Archbishop Thomas Whiteside, dated to the church's construction period. Named in honour of Cardinal John Henry Newman and the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, the church grew from a school established in 1853 on nearby Hope Street. In the 1950s, an adjacent bombsite was transformed into a Spanish garden dedicated to Our Lady. Now a Grade II* listed building, the church contains six altars dedicated to various aspects of Catholic devotion.