Former Congregational Church is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Former Congregational Church
- WRENN ID
- swift-tin-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Former Congregational Church, Great George Street, L1 5EW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 351 896
- Coordinates
- 53.39925, -2.97677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Congregational Church, built between 1840 and 1841 by J. Franklin, is a stone chapel that stands two storeys high with a basement and features nine bays facing Nelson Street. The basement is rusticated and has a flat lintel band. The main façade is adorned with a giant Corinthian pilastrade, with windows set in architraved, round-headed recesses. The windows are fitted with small paned casements, and the building is topped with an entablature and a tall parapet.
The façade facing Berry Street displays channelled rustication and includes a projecting drum supported by a Corinthian colonnade of ten monolithic columns. The central entrance features an architrave and a consoled cornice, with paired six-panel doors and flanking eared architraved entrances. The drum extends upward, showcasing a guilloche band that frames wheel windows and a lead-covered cupola.
The left return of the building is similar in style and includes an attached two-storey, three-bay structure that is not listed. Ornamental iron railings are present, although some are missing. Inside the drum, there is a double staircase with decorative iron balusters, a panelled balcony at the upper level, a coffered dome, and a mahogany entrance doorcase.
Local climate
Former Congregational 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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