Lord Street West United Church is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. Church.
Lord Street West United Church
- WRENN ID
- old-mullion-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- SD 331 168
- Coordinates
- 53.64355, -3.01245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lord Street West United Church is a former Congregational church, now a United Reformed church, built between 1861 and 1862. It was designed by Walker of Manchester and was gutted by fire in 1964, after which it was restored. The church is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features a slate roof with fishscale bands of green slate, showcasing a Decorated Gothic Revival style.
The church has a nave with a north-west tower, which no longer has its spire, a south aisle, a south-west vestry, and a chancel. The exterior includes a six-bay nave with buttresses, a plinth, and an ashlar parapet with ridged coping. It features two-centred arched three-light windows with varying tracery and hoodmoulds that have figured stops. At the west end, there is a two-centred arched west doorway with a moulded surround and a hoodmould with figured stops, alongside a large segmental-pointed five-light window with Decorated tracery.
The tower has short angle buttresses, a two-centred arched west doorway similar to that of the nave, cusped lancets on the second stage, and two-centred arched two-light belfry windows with moulded surrounds, shafts, and stone louvres, culminating in the broached base of the former spire. Additionally, there is a church hall attached to the south-east end, built in 1965 by David Jones of Ormerod & Partners of Liverpool. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lord Street West United Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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