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Latitude: 53.3898 / 53°23'23"N
Longitude: -2.938 / 2°56'16"W
OS Eastings: 337713
OS Northings: 388521
OS Grid: SJ377885
Mapcode National: GBR 7GV.FT
Mapcode Global: WH87F.V243
Plus Code: 9C5V93Q6+WQ
Entry Name: Ullet Road Unitarian Church
Listing Date: 14 March 1975
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218227
English Heritage Legacy ID: 359629
ID on this website: 101218227
Location: Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool, Merseyside, L17
County: Liverpool
Electoral Ward/Division: Greenbank
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Liverpool
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Toxteth Park St Agnes and St Pancras
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Church building Art Nouveau Gothic Revival Art Nouveau architecture
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SJ 3788
33/1249
ULLET ROAD L17
No 57, Ullet Road Unitarian Church
(Formerly listed as Unitarian Chapel, ULLET ROAD)
14.3.75.
GV
I
Chapel. 1898. T. and P. Worthington. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roof. In an elaborate late Gothic style. Nave and aisles, narthex and organ loft, but aligned north-south.
Nave of seven bays with gabled buttresses and corner buttresses to west end. Three-light perpendicular windows to clerestory and small two-light windows to aisles. Narthex of three bays with colonnetted splayed doorway and panel on parapet giving date. Bronze doors in Arts and Crafts style. Above this a large wheel window with carved angel in the apex. The gable is complicated by a feature resembling a bell-cote. Organ loft has cross gable and five-light feature, two lights glazed. Small polygonal apse.
Interior: Stone, nave has arcades on round columns and passage aisles. Shallow timber roof on corbelled wall piers. Chancel has low walls forming pulpits and wooden choir stalls, those to south with canopies. Original light fittings, and stained glass windows by Burne-Jones. Vestry and Library to south have original panelling, fireplaces and bookcases. The vestry has a domical vault with paintings of the Cardinal Virtues by G. Moira. The library has a vaulted ceiling with painting of the Pursuit of Truth, also by G. Moira. Original light fittings.
With the Church Hall (q.v.) this chapel forms one of the most elaborate Non-conformist ensembles in the country.
Listing NGR: SJ3771088508
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