St Patrick's Church, Liverpool

St Patrick's Church, Liverpool
St Patrick's Church, Liverpool, from the northwest
St Patrick's Church, Liverpool Location in Liverpool
53°23′32″N 2°58′18″W / 53.3921°N 2.9716°W / 53.3921; -2.9716Coordinates: 53°23′32″N 2°58′18″W / 53.3921°N 2.9716°W / 53.3921; -2.9716
Location	Park Place, Liverpool, Merseyside
Country	England
Denomination	Roman Catholic
History
Dedication	Saint Patrick
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	14 March 1975
Architect(s)	John Slater
Architectural type	Church
Style	Neoclassical
Groundbreaking	1821
Completed	1827
Specifications
Materials	Brick with stone dressings, slate roof
Administration
Diocese	Liverpool
Clergy
Priest(s)	Revd John Southworth

St Patrick's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Park Place, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active parish church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool and the Pastoral Area of Liverpool South. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

St Patrick's was built between 1821 and 1827, and designed by John Slater. A baldachino was erected inside the church in 1953.

The church is constructed in brick on a stone base, with stone dressings and slate roofs. It is in Neoclassical style, with two tiers of round-headed casement windows. The plan is rectangular, with a short two-storey transept on each side, and a low block at the east end containing vestries. A square louvred belfry stands on the roof of the north transept. A stone band runs round the church between the storeys, and around the top is a frieze and a cornice. The west end is in four bays. Above the windows in the lower storey is a plaque. The central two windows in the upper storey are blind, and between them is the free-standing statue of Saint Patrick on a plinth. The statue was moved from the St Patrick Insurance Company building in Dublin in 1827, when it was presented to the church by James Branker, a sugar refiner. At the top of the west front is a pedimented gable, which contains a Calvary cross. On the west sides of each transept is a porch fronted by four Greek Doric columns.