St Anne's Church was opened on 25 October 1772. It had been built at the expense of Thomas and Richard Dobb, cabinetmakers, of Williamson Square and Henry North, fruit merchant, Dale Street. They owned the land on which it was built. At the time the area was still quite rural. They applied to

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for the passage of the Richmond Chapel, Lancashire Act 1772 to enable the completion of the church as a

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. The first

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was Claudius Crigan, who had been an

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. He married Mary Harman, the widow of a wealthy slave owner, and retired from the army. The church provided services for wealthy inhabitants of Liverpool, raising money to pay the rector by selling pews for sixty and seventy guineas with no free pews. Poet

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was married here in 1810. An example of the congregation is

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of Tarleton Street, who occupied three pews.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Anne's Church, Liverpool (1772-1871) History of Liverpool 1772 establishments in England