I was amazed at the interest, which the post on the Compton Hotel (M&S building) generated in such a small amount of time… Allow me to THANK everyone who took time to like, share and contribute extra information, which I have added to my own records…

Now that, we all know about the ‘Compton’… I’d like to do an ‘about-turn’ and look at the building on the other side of the street. Although demolished in 1922, this building, is what gives Church Street, its name… as the building, is The Cathedral Church of St. Peters.

St. Peters was built in 1700, and the plate engraving by W.H. Watts, shows the church in the year 1800 at this time there was a salt water channel, which ran between between Church Street and Lord Street. The roads were not paved until 1816.

On the map… I have included a picture of The Compton Hotel and an arrow pointing to its position on Church Street. I have also included a ‘Friths’ image (second image down) of St.Peters and its position. In the image, we can see one of the towers of the Compton to the right of the picture… the corner building between the church and hotel, is where Samuel’s the Jewellers now stands.

Because the Cathedral Church of St. Peters, was a CofE ‘High Church’, the Mass would most likely at times, to have been said in Latin, and it is reported that the Church of Rome, regarded St. Peters, highly, owing to the large population of Irish Catholic’s within the city.

The only sign today, that St. Peters existed… is a brass cross, set into the pavement at the entrance to the Liverpool ONE shopping centre (see included image). denoting the position of the main entrance gate to the church.