Toxteth Unitarian Chapel is a Grade I listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.

Toxteth Unitarian Chapel

WRENN ID
spare-lancet-kestrel
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1952
Type
Chapel
Address
Toxteth Unitarian Chapel, Park Road, L8 9RD
OS grid reference
SJ 363 875
Coordinates
53.38133, -2.95793
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Toxteth Unitarian Chapel is an Anglican chapel that later became Presbyterian and is now Unitarian. It was originally built in 1618, partly rebuilt in 1774, and had a porch added in 1841. The chapel is constructed of stone with a slate roof and features two storeys and two bays, with an extension to the north. The round-headed windows have stone surrounds with impost blocks. The western extension includes bracketed eaves and a gable, while a smaller projecting bay also features bracketed eaves and a gable. There are paired round-headed entrances with a commemorative plaque and three windows above. The south facade includes a window with a sash and interlaced glazing bars above a small porch. The east windows have external shutters. A small octagonal cupola at the south end has ogee-headed louvred openings and a button finial.

Inside, the chapel has a pulpit against the east wall, box pews, and galleries on three sides. The north and south galleries are from the 17th century, while the connecting gallery is from the 18th century. Two box pews are dated 1650 and 1700. The chancel arch from the original building is chamfered and pointed and has survived. As a chapel that was Nonconformist before 1660 and which retains an excellent set of furnishings completed by a century later, this chapel is of the highest importance.

Local climate

Toxteth Unitarian Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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