Many members built houses in the area. The Renshaw Street site is now occupied by Grand Central Hall. The chapel graveyard remains as a garden and a monument commemorates the previous use. The cemetery had been closed to new burials under the provisions of sanitary regulations but Thomas Thornely, who died in 1862, was successful in his appeal to the prime minister, Lord Palmerston, to permit, under strict conditions, the burial of people closely related to those already interred. Palmerston himself had been potentially excluded from interment in a family vault elsewhere under the same regulations. Notable ministers Charles Beard William Henry Channing George Harris William Hincks L. P. Jacks John Hamilton Thom Notable congregants Henry Arthur Bright Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet John Pemberton Heywood Samuel Holland Alfred Holt Emma Holt George Holt William Stanley Jevons William Lidderdale William Rathbone V William Rathbone VI William Roscoe Henry Tate Thomas Thornely John Ashton Yates See also Octagon Chapel, Liverpool Toxteth Unitarian Chapel Ullet Road Unitarian Church Hope Street Unitarian Chapel References Further reading 1811 establishments in England Buildings and structures in Liverpool Unitarian chapels in England 1890s disestablishments in England