Blundellsands United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1996. Church. 7 related planning applications.
Blundellsands United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- south-hinge-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Blundellsands United Reformed Church, Warren Road, L23 6UA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 306 996
- Coordinates
- 53.48886, -3.04634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blundellsands United Reformed Church, Crosby, was built between 1904 and 1905 by architects W.G. Fraser and A. Thornely. The church is constructed of large blocks of snecked red sandstone, with green slate roofs. It is designed in a Free Perpendicular style.
The building features a nave running on a north-south axis, with a short chancel, east and west transepts, a north-east tower, and a north-west stair-turret and cloakroom. The square, three-stage tower has angle buttresses, a two-centred arched west doorway with a double-chamfered surround and hoodmould, two small lancet windows on the second stage, tall coupled round-headed two-light windows on the third stage, and a stepped and pierced embattled parapet. The gable of the nave has three small rectangular windows below a large two-centred arched window of 1:3:1 lights with free tracery in the head, and gable coping carried round as a parapet which is then stepped and ramped down to the stair-turret. The stair-turret is designed as a set-back two-storey wing with a three-sided west end, incorporating a doorway on its north side and tall cross-windows to the gable. A polygonal single-storey cloakroom is located in the angle, featuring mullioned two-light windows, a parapet, and a steep, polygonal slate roof with a finial.
The interior includes narrow transverse passage-aisles with moulded two-centred arches on octagonal columns, a wooden wagon ceiling, a west gallery, and a good First World War memorial window in the chancel.
Local climate
Blundellsands United Reformed Church 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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