Greek Orthodox Church is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Church. 4 related planning applications.

Greek Orthodox Church

WRENN ID
kindled-minaret-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Church
Address
Greek Orthodox Church, Berkley Street
OS grid reference
SJ 357 891
Coordinates
53.39542, -2.96712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Greek Orthodox Church, built between 1865 and 1870 by Henry Sumners, is a notable brick and stone structure featuring a symmetrical design. It stands two storeys high and consists of five bays. The ground floor has a rusticated base with flush stone bands and a string course above, topped with a parapet that includes segmental arches over each bay. The paired round-headed windows on the ground floor are supported by colonnetes with Byzantine capitals. The first floor features a lunette window with a banded arch and aprons, while the outer windows are Diocletian style, and the inner ones have two round-headed lights. The central bay is accentuated by a full-height architrave.

The round-headed entrance is flanked by columns and has incised decoration on the arch, leading to paired five-panel doors set within a frame. Above the entrance is an inscribed panel with Greek lettering and a lunette featuring a displayed two-headed eagle. The end bays are topped with cupolas that have eight-sided drums, round heads, columns at the angles, and sail vaults. The central cupola is octagonal, with columns and an entablature supporting a domical vault topped with a cross. This cross vault includes lunettes and a 12-sided cupola with a sail vault. The rear facade facing Princes Road features a canted apse with windows that have stilted arches and shafts, along with flanking canted bays set in recesses.

Local climate

Greek Orthodox Church 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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