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== Bishopsfield Lecture Hall and Reading Room<ref>''<small>Article researched and written by Ralph Earlam and Ruth Ludgate, March 2022</small>''</ref> ==
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[[File:RR1 Hoole Baptist Church with original front entrance.jpg|thumb|''<small>Hoole Baptist Church with original front entrance</small>'']]
Most of the building which is now Hoole Baptist Church (Hoole Lighthouse Centre) in Westminster Road was originally built as a Lecture Hall and Reading Room. It opened in 1863. Sited on Peploe Street (as Westminster Road was formerly known), in this original role it was described as being located in Bishopsfield, the early name for this part of Hoole derived, it is believed, from the land vesting in St. Werburgh’s Abbey during the medieval period. The name appears on some maps but only survives today in the modern social housing known as Bishopsfield Court on School/Walker Streets. Peploe Street was re-named Westminster Road in 1893.
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