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In 1823 a section of the Liverpool, Oldham Street charge left the congregation there and set up a new congregation, initially worshipping in the Music Hall in Bold Street. However, on the 3rd December 1824 a new church was opened for worship in Rodney Street, Liverpool by Edward Irving. The charge was officially known as Liverpool, St Andrew's, Rodney Street Church of Scotland, but 'Rodney Street' was dropped from the title sometime thereafter. In the 1970s it was noted that the church building in Rodney Street was badly in need of repair and its future seemed uncertain. The condition was to become so bad that services were held in the church hall and the church itself was closed permanently in 1975. The congregation then relocated to accommodation at the Anglican Cathedral, and at one point the use of the Turner Home Chapel was considered as a place for worship, but this was eventually voted down and the congregation remained at the Cathedral. Disaster struck in 1983 when the Rodney Street building was gutted by fire. In 2016 the church building was eventually renovated and transformed into student accommodation, and in the same year the congregation of St Andrew's was dissolved. |