Description

CROSBY

SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD
778-1/3/60 (West side)
26/03/73 Main building, Merchant Taylors
School (Boys)

GV II

School. 1878, by Lockwood and Mawson. Red brick in English
bond with sandstone and terracotta dressings, graduated green
slate roofs with bands of blue slate fishscaling, lead roof to
tower. Gothic style. Elongated U-plan with main range centred
on tower and long receding wings.
EXTERIOR: main range, single storey plus attics, 5+5 windows
interrupted by tall tower over central entrance, 2-storey wing
to left and high single-storey wing (hall) to right. Plinth
with chamfered stone coping, stone sillband. The central tower
has a large 2-centred arched doorway with 2 orders of
roll-moulding under a coped gablet with carved apex finial, 2
lancets to the second stage, a clockface in a square panel at
the 3rd stage, and a large oversailing 4th stage with
tourelles, an arcaded 5-light window and embattled parapet,
surmounted by a 2-stage louvred lantern with lead-clad
pyramidal roofing. The 5-window side ranges each have 2 gabled
bays breaking the eaves, with 2-centred arched windows,
alternating with 3 square-headed windows, all cross-windows
with altered glazing but the arched windows with plate tracery
in the heads; and 2 small gabled dormers high in the roof. The
left wing, with angle-buttresses and a hipped roof, has a
large canted bay window at ground floor with
quatrefoil-enriched parapet, and at 1st floor a 2-centred
arched 2-light window rising into a gablet. The right-hand
wing, also with angle buttresses, has a very large
multiple-light canted bay window with quatrefoil frieze and
hipped stone slate roof. The left return of the left wing, 8
windows, in an asymmetrical composition, has a gabled porch
next to a wide central gable, tall mullion-and-transom windows
at ground floor and mostly 2-centred arched windows at 1st
floor rising into gablets. The right-hand return of the right
wing has six tall 2-centred arched 2-light windows with
circular plate tracery.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with associated headmaster's house (qv), entrance
lodge (qv) and gateway (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ3212199004

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548872

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)