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St Catherine's Church Liverpool

This handsome building was erected after the design of Mr Foster and is situate on the east side of Abercromby Square. It's extrmem length is 123 feet, and it's width is 68 feet. A beautiful portico adorns the entrance which is composed of six Ionic columns with rich capitals. The inside of this church is remarkably neat. The galleries rest on twelve square pedestals which support a corresponding number of columns surmounted by beautiful Corinthian Capitals from which springs the base of the dome. The ceiling is embellished with panelling and the principal light is admitted through eight lateral windows in the cupola the height of which from the ground to the top of the cross is 65 feet. A fine organ is placed in the western gallery, and the whole interior is commodiously fitted up with neat pews that contain about 1300 sittings more than 200 of which are free