Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, SEEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073449
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, SEEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073449
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, SEEL STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, SEEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3500589889
Details
SJ 3489 SEEL STREET
SJ 3589 (south side)
L1
30/1110 CHURCH OF ST PETER
56/1110 Roman Catholic
Church
14.3.75.
G.V. II
Catholic church. 1788, the sanctuary added 1845. Stucco.
2 storeys and 6 bays. Ground floor has segmental headed
windows, gallery has round-headed windows, all with leaded
glazing. Projecting vestry to 1st bay. A projecting 2
storeyed porch with pediment, fluted Doric columns, frieze
and cornice, and date of 1788 in metopes; window in upper
storey. Interior has gallery on 3 sides, on columns with
leaf capitals. Flat ceiling. Mural monument to founder who
died 1814 (a draped urn). Sanctuary is more ornate, with
gilded Composite pilasters, and altar with columns and
pediment, modillioned cornice, segmental arched ceiling.
Relief mural monuments of 1837, 1840 and 1847. Sanctuary
said to project into No. 76. Oldest Roman Catholic church
in Liverpool.
Listing NGR: SJ3500589889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359473
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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