BLUECOAT CHAMBERS BUILDING
Built between
1717-1721
Graded Status
Grade I
Founded
1708 The Liverpool Blue Coat School, by the Reverend Robert Styth, rector of Liverpool, and
Bry Blundell, master mariner,
History
Also referred to as the Blue Coat
Hospital.
An institution "dedicated to the promotion of Christian charity and the training of poor boys in the principles of the Anglican Church." A Latin inscription of this text high above the main entrance is a reminder today of the building's original function.
After nearly 200 years of occupancy, the School had outgrown its original home, and in 1906 moved to new, larger premises in suburban Wavertree.
Design
Queen Anne style architecture.
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