Church of St Clare, Liverpool

The Church of St Clare is a Grade I listed building, the only Grade I listed Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool. The church was built between 1888 and 1890. The architect was Leonard Stokes, the godson of Francis Reynolds. The high altar, dating from 1890, consists of a large triptych which contains paintings and relief sculptures by Robert Anning Bell and George Frampton. The stone pulpit was designed by Stokes and consists of four sides of a hexagon with openwork tracery. The oldest stained glass in the church is in the Sacred Heart Chapel: the Sacred Heart window, which was installed in 1906. The organ loft is situated above the Lady Chapel. The church is constructed in buff-coloured brick with Storeton stone bands and dressings, and is in Gothic style. Its roof is of slate. The plan of the church consists of a single vessel with a small north transept, long and low north and south chapels at the east end, and two porches.