Tower to Former Presbyterian Church of St Columba is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1993. Tower.
Tower to Former Presbyterian Church of St Columba
- WRENN ID
- far-wicket-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1993
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower to Former Presbyterian Church of St Columba, Smithdown Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 383 885
- Coordinates
- 53.38978, -2.92913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower of the former Presbyterian Church of St. Columba, built between 1896 and 1897, is located on Smithdown Road in Sefton Park, Liverpool. This west tower is constructed of red brick, featuring yellow terracotta ornamentation and intermittent banding, topped with a gable-facing saddle-back roof made of slate. The tower has angle buttresses that set back just below the parapet. On the west face, there is a 5-light window with Perpendicular tracery. The top stage includes bell openings, which consist of a flat-arched triplet on each face, complete with mullions and reticulated tracery heads. The 5-light opening and bell stage are accentuated by broad weatherings. The decorative parapet features blind tracery panels, and the gable end is pierced by a 2-light window with a flat-arched tracery head. Finials adorn the corners of the parapets and the apex of each gable, while a diminutive fleche is positioned at the center ridge. The tower is part of a group with the former lodge to Sefton Park at no. 1 Greenbank. Recent development attached to the east of the tower is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Tower to Former Presbyterian Church of St Columba sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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