Bishop Eton Monastery is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1966. Monastery. 10 related planning applications.
Bishop Eton Monastery
- WRENN ID
- pitched-cupola-vetch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Garston MP: Maria Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1966
- Type
- Monastery
- Address
- Bishop Eton Monastery, Woolton Road, L16 8NQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 405 883
- Coordinates
- 53.38902, -2.89518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a monastery with an attached chapel. The monastery was constructed in 1858 by Edward Welby Pugin, with later extensions dating to 1889. The chapel's design was initiated in 1851 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and completed in 1858 by Edward Welby Pugin.
The monastery is built of brick with stone dressings, and has a slate mansard roof, likely added later. The original portion is two storeys with an attic, arranged over nine bays with the central five bays projecting forward. A decorative band separates the floors, and a sill band is also present. The windows have wedge lintels and are sash windows with glazing bars. An extension to the right comprises four bays, with three storeys, and a recessed two-bay section of two storeys. The windows here have two and three segmental-headed lights. The first bay projects and forms the base of a tower, which features weathering flanked by buttresses above the second floor. A clock face is set within a square stone surround with a canopy, surmounted by a swept pyramidal roof with louvred bell stage.
The chapel features a nave with aisles under lean-to roofs; it lacks a clerestory. The chancel includes transepts, with a north transept serving as a chapel. The west window consists of five lights with Decorated tracery. Buttresses flank the window, with a canted inner angle on the south side accommodating a stair turret, and segmental-pointed two-light windows defining the aisles' ends. Aisle windows are two-light and segmental-headed. The western bays are gabled with hexagonal slates and have pointed two-light windows. The north transept has a three-light north window and an east rose window. The chancel has five cusped lights.
Inside the chapel, a three-bay nave arcade rests on round columns with elaborately carved capitals. A hoodmould, including stops in the form of evangelists' symbols, is also present. A waggon roof is supported by angel corbels. Aisle windows are set within recesses; those on the south side incorporate confessionals. The chancel and chapel feature stencilled panelling and a connecting arch. On the south side of the chancel are three segmental-pointed openings, the central one providing access to a monks’ seating area. A three-bay triforium with two-light pointed openings exists, now glazed. The chapel contains an elaborate reredos, alters (with the chancel reredos brought forward), and silver sanctuary lamps shaped like ships. Stained glass from the 19th century is present, including some by Hardman and a west window by Kempe.
Local climate
Bishop Eton Monastery 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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