St Anthony's Church, Scotland Road

It was founded by the Reverend Jean Baptiste Antoine Gerardot, an émigré from the French Revolution of 1789, and Freddy O'Connor makes the interesting point that during the Napoleonic Wars 'French prisoners of war would have attended the church under supervision from the Borough Jail in Great Howard Street.

The famous Liverpool church of St Anthony's, Scotland Road, was built in 1833 and designed by John Broadbent.

At St Anthony's, Broadbent built a simple if not severe church with Early English buttresses and lancet windows and a surprisingly large interior.

The church has a commanding presence on Scotland Road, and even the dour James Picton acknowledged that 'the building is imposing from its size and proportions'.

[2] The church only reopened on 13 July with a morning mass by parish priest Fr Graeme Dunne.