Former Christ Church School is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1996. School.

Former Christ Church School

WRENN ID
far-cobalt-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sefton
Constituency
Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1996
Type
School
Address
Former Christ Church School, Great Georges Street
OS grid reference
SJ 320 977
Coordinates
53.47193, -3.0245
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Christ Church School is a school building constructed in 1842 for the National Society. It has been enlarged and altered since its original construction. The building is made of common brick laid in Flemish bond, with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It has an F-plan layout, featuring a main range that runs parallel to the street, with projecting wings offset to the left of center and at the right end, along with a short set-back wing at the left end.

The exterior is single-storey and has a window arrangement of 2:1:1:3, with rusticated quoins. The gable end of the left wing features a triple-window design, consisting of a central cross-window flanked by narrow blind windows, all adorned with stone architraves linked by hoodmoulds. Above this is a stone tablet with raised lettering that reads "CHRIST CHURCH / NATIONAL SCHOOL / 1842," with the date figures supported by corbel feet. The right-hand wing has stepped cross-windows, although the lower part is obscured by a short flat-roofed extension that matches the original style. The main range includes two cross-windows to the left and one in the center, all with similar architraves, and there is a 20th-century doorway located at the angle with the right wing.

The interior has not been inspected. This building is notable as it appears to be the oldest public school in Crosby, aside from the Merchant Taylors Free Grammar School, which is now part of Merchant Taylors Girls' School on Liverpool Road.

Local climate

Former Christ Church School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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