Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,499 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

St. Anne's Church, Liverpool (1772)

From Graces Guide

in St. Anne's Street, Everton, Liverpool.

The earliest known example of the use of iron as a structural material in England was in St. Anne's Church, Liverpool, built 1770-72, where cast iron columns support the galleries [1]

The 1772 church was demolished and replaced by a new church, consecrated in 1871.

See here[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] JAMES NASMYTH AND THE LIVERPOOL IRON TRADE BY R. DICKINSON, B.Sc., Ph.D, p.88, quoting from The Stranger in Liverpool, 1st edition (Liverpool, 1807), p. 81.
  2. [2] Blog: De Quincey in Everton: St Anne's Church, Liverpool