Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel

Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel had its origins in a Presbyterian community at Toxteth Park that was at one time ministered by Richard Mather.

[2] The Benn's Gardens premises became a place of worship for Welsh Wesleyan Methodists[3] when the new Unitarian chapel was built at Renshaw Street in 1811.

One of its later ministers wrote, many decades after the congregation had left the building: The German words might be a reference to the Bach cantata of that name,[dubious – discuss] and "Ironside" was a nickname for an armoured car in use at the time of writing.

[dubious – discuss] The new chapel had a congregation that included numerous significant local business families, such as the Booths, Brunners, Gairs, Gaskells, Hollands, Jevons, Jones, Holts,[5] Lamports, Mellys, Rathbones, Tates and Thornelys.

[6][7] It has been described as "the meeting house for a tightly-knit network of Unitarian ship owners and merchants who frequently formed alliances by marriage, met socially, invested in one another's ventures, shared or exchanged practical skills, embarked on philanthropic (especially educational) schemes, and engaged fully in the politics of reform".