Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anthony is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Church. 1 related planning application.
Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anthony
- WRENN ID
- unlit-turret-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anthony, Scotland Road, L5 5BD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 348 921
- Coordinates
- 53.42227, -2.98117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anthony is a Catholic church built in 1833, designed by John Broadbent. It features an ashlar facing on the west facade, with stucco returns and stone dressings, topped by a slate roof. The nave consists of seven bays and has a three-bay west facade, which includes a central projecting bay that serves as a porch with an organ loft above, flanked by low blocks at the corners. The chancel has a shallow recess, with chapel recesses to the east. The west facade is adorned with chamfered clasping buttresses that end in pinnacles. It has single lancets at ground floor level and paired lancets above, along with a central stepped triple lancet. The entrance is a plain pointed arch. The returns feature paired lancets between the buttresses, while the east end showcases stepped triple lancets at the chancel and additional pinnacles.
Inside, the wide nave has a coffered ceiling and a deep west gallery with a segmental arched organ recess at the rear. There may have been galleries along the sides of the nave. The chancel arch is a four-centred arch on three orders, and the chapel arches have pointed arches on three orders, all featuring ribbed vaults and elaborate architectural reredoses. There are two niches for statues on either side of the recesses, along with a pierced altar rail and an octagonal pulpit.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anthony 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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