Princes Road is a street in

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. It runs from a traffic circle at the northern extremity of Princes Park where Croxteth, Devonshire, and Kingsley Roads join, northwest about one kilometre to Upper Parliament Street. It is paralleled along most of its length by Princes Avenue, with a tree-lined strip between them, where there were formerly tram rails. In Liverpool's nineteenth-century heyday, Princes Road was a grand avenue of merchants' houses, some of which have since fallen into disrepair or been demolished.

Places on Princes Road

* Welsh Presbyterian Church. This imposing

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

structure was once the tallest building in Liverpool. Architect: Audsley Brothers. Opened: 1868. Status: Grade II

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Princes Road Synagogue Princes Road Synagogue, officially Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Princes Road in the Toxteth district of Liverpool, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation was formed ...

, an eclectic combination of Gothic Revival and Moorish Revival architecture which the architectural historian H. A. Meek called "stunning".Meek, H. A., The Synagogue, Phaidon Press, London, 1995, p. 208 Architect: Audsley Brothers. Opened: 1874. Status: Grade I

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Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas The Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II Listed building in Toxteth, Liverpool, situated at the junction of Berkley Street and Princes Road. Built in the Neo-Byzantine architecture style, it was completed in 1870. The architects wer ...

, an ornate

Neo-Byzantine Neo-Byzantine architecture (also referred to as Byzantine Revival) was a Revivalism (architecture), revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings. It incorporates elements of the Byzantine architecture, ...

church on Berkley St, backing onto Prince's Road. Architect: W. & J. Hay. Built: 1870. Status: Grade II

References

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