Saint Philip Neri Church, Liverpool

St Philip Neri Church is home to the Roman Catholic chaplaincy to the Universities in Liverpool. It features a Byzantine-inspired design and was built between 1914 and 1920. There are exterior friezes depicting the Last Supper and of Our Lady and the Child Jesus inscribed with the two titles given to Our Lady at the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD, i.e. 'Deipara' and 'Theotokos'. The parish grew from the school named 'The Institute' which opened in 1853 in nearby Hope Street. The parish and later the church were named after Saint Philip Neri. In the 1950s, the then-priest Dr John Garvin transformed an adjoining bombsite into a Spanish garden, 'El Jardin della Nuestra Senora.' The church became the chaplaincy for the Universities in September 2001 when the old Liverpool University chaplaincy relocated from its previous home on the cathedral precinct opposite the University of Liverpool Guild of Students on Mount Pleasant. The church is a Grade II listed building.