Many motorists will pass a striking-looking historic building just outside the city without even realising what it is.
On an architectural level, St Patrick's Church in Park Place, Toxteth, doesn't even look much like a church. The only giveaways are a large crucifix and a statue on the front of the building, and a tall Celtic cross in the grounds.
But there is far more to this 200-year-old building than meets the eye. It is Liverpool's oldest Roman Catholic church still in use. It also has a crypt believed to contain the bones of many thousands of refugees who fled the Irish potato famine, along with those who fell victim to a devastating typhus epidemic that swept Liverpool in 1847.
