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Can you post a link to the Facebook page you are referring to, please, Tracey? The photo looks like a newspaper cutting. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but if you knew the newspaper, perhaps they could supply some more photos. The fact that it was described as having a south aisle would imply that it had an east-west axis. If other people's wedding photos are like those of my Mum and Dad, they will mainly show people standing in front of the entrance, or by a wall. They will not likely show the whole church.

I spoke earlier this evening to a chap who has been a member of the congregation at Buckley street for at least 60 years. When I asked him if St Peter's was Methodist or Cof E, he did not have to think twice before saying it was definitely CofE. I realise that is not proof, but it is good enough for me.

I'm not qualified either, but "The Church of England" was (as far as I know) the church set up by Henry VIII when he dissolved the monasteries in his dispute with the Pope. It has a lot of things in common with the Catholic Church. Some Anglican churches are referred to as "High Church", and they are even closer to the Catholic Church. But Methodism and other Protestant Churches are much more distant in their forms of worship from the Anglican (Church of England). The Bishop of Liverpool would be Church of England (for sure), and why he was talking about Methodism I have no idea. The Methodist Church does not have bishops. Although Wesley held that he was a member of the Church of England, Methodism and the Cof E separated about 1800. On the one hand I cannot understand why a Methodist church would invite a CofE bishop to its opening ceremony, but on the other hand I cannot understand why a CofE bishop would talk at length about Wesley and Methodism at the opening of a CofE church. St Peter's did not look like a traditional CofE (parish) church, but that might have been because it was so "new". I used to play on the patch of smooth tarmac in front of St Peter's - it was the only smooth area for quite some distance, everywhere else being cobbled. I hope you can sort it all out - and get some photos.

I have a marriage certificate of my mother's parents who were married at St Peter's in 1912. It says they were married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, which I take to mean the Church of England. I went to Buckley Street Methodist Church and I was certainly never under the impression that St Peter's was a Methodist Church. I cannot comment about the orientation of the church, but the map of 1910 seems to show it on a north-west to south-east axis, so the altar could be at the south-east end - more in the direction of Jerusalem than due east.