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Merchant Taylors School (Girls) That Portion Which Was the Original Foundation

A Grade II* Listed Building in Crosby, Sefton

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4898 / 53°29'23"N

Longitude: -3.0251 / 3°1'30"W

OS Eastings: 332085

OS Northings: 399716

OS Grid: SJ320997

Mapcode National: GBR 7X92.WR

Mapcode Global: WH86T.HKQ1

Plus Code: 9C5RFXQF+WX

Entry Name: Merchant Taylors School (Girls) That Portion Which Was the Original Foundation

Listing Date: 4 July 1952

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1257528

English Heritage Legacy ID: 463766

Also known as: Merchant Taylors' School for Girls, Crosby
Merchant Taylors Girls School

ID on this website: 101257528

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 Luke

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

Tagged with: School building School Independent school Girls' school

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Description



CROSBY

SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD
778-1/3/61 (West side)
04/07/52 Merchant Taylors School (Girls),
that portion which was the original
foundation

II*

Original Merchant Taylors' Free Grammar School, now part of
Merchant Taylors' Girls' School. Founded 1620, by John
Harrison (citizen and merchant of London); altered, and now
attached to modern buildings at rear. Large coursed squared
sandstone blocks with some freestone dressings, stone slate
roof. Cruciform plan formed by main range with projected
2-storey porch to front and projected stair-turret to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3:1:3 windows, symmetrical; with a
moulded plinth, string course over ground floor with a frieze
of paterae, moulded eaves cornice, and coped gables with
kneelers and apex finials. The porch has a round-headed
doorway with moulded imposts and C20 panelled divided doors,
at 1st floor a tall square-headed blocked opening (like a
doorway), now rendered and containing a C20 sundial, and in
each side a 2-light mullioned window at ground floor and a
6-light transomed window above. To each side there is a
coupled pair of cross-windows at ground floor, a similar but
shorter pair of cross-windows at 1st floor directly above
these and a 6-light window between these and the porch. All
these windows have chamfered mullions and transoms and
double-chamfered surrounds. Much of the masonry at ground
floor is covered by old incised graffiti (some C18 but mostly
C19). Both gable walls have coupled cross-windows on both
floors (the upper in the left gable now with wooden mullions
and transoms). The rear has a stair-turret with a 6-light
window on each floor, and a large extruded chimney stack to
each bay (that to the 2nd bay now covered by early C20
extension).
INTERIOR: not inspected.


Listing NGR: SJ3208599716

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