Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Church. 6 related planning applications.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-banister-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Seel Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 350 898
- Coordinates
- 53.40181, -2.97903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a Roman Catholic church built in 1788, with a sanctuary added in 1845. It is constructed of stucco and features two storeys with six bays. The ground floor has segmental-headed windows, while the gallery above has round-headed windows, all fitted with leaded glazing. There is a projecting vestry at the first bay and a two-storey porch that includes a pediment, fluted Doric columns, a frieze, and a cornice, with the date of 1788 displayed in metopes and a window in the upper storey.
Inside, the church has a gallery on three sides supported by columns with leaf capitals and a flat ceiling. There is a mural monument to the founder, who died in 1814, depicted as a draped urn. The sanctuary is more ornate, featuring gilded Composite pilasters, an altar with columns and a pediment, a modillioned cornice, and a segmental arched ceiling. Additionally, there are relief mural monuments from 1837, 1840, and 1847. The sanctuary is noted to project into No. 76. This church is recognized as the oldest Roman Catholic church in Liverpool.
Local climate
Church of St Peter 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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