The Friary and the Church of Our Lady of the Angels were opened by Archbishop Whiteside on 4 October 1910. They owe their foundation to the generosity of a convert, Miss Amy Elizabeth Imrie who was received into the Church in 1892. She devoted the financial means at her disposal of the building of a home for the Friars Minor in Liverpool and in due time the church and friary, designed by Pugin, arose on the site of the old Richmond Fair.

	Photograph by kind permission Dave Wood http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/