St Barnabas was built as a daughter-church to St. Paul's Bewsey Road, which is now sadly demolished.  Designed by local architects, William & Segar Owen, and consecrated on St Luke's Day (18th October), 1879, by the Rt.Rev'd William Jacobson, Lord Bishop of Chester. The Church very shortly after became part of the newly established Diocese of Liverpool, In 1884 St. Barnabas  became a parish church in its own right