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Main Building Merchant Taylors School (Boys)

A Grade II Listed Building in Crosby, Sefton

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4834 / 53°29'0"N

Longitude: -3.0244 / 3°1'27"W

OS Eastings: 332121

OS Northings: 399004

OS Grid: SJ321990

Mapcode National: GBR 7XB5.11

Mapcode Global: WH86T.JP1Y

Plus Code: 9C5RFXMG+87

Entry Name: Main Building Merchant Taylors School (Boys)

Listing Date: 26 March 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1257525

English Heritage Legacy ID: 463763

ID on this website: 101257525

Location: Great Crosby, Sefton, Merseyside, L23

County: Sefton

Electoral Ward/Division: Victoria

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Crosby

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Great Crosby St Faith

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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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

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