The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION

We are happy to find that the imposing appearance which
this edifice already presents is attracting the notice of our
townsmen in no ordinary degree. Indeed, we may truly say,
that all who have beheld it have been most agreeably sur-
prised, as well by its extent as by its faithful accordance in
architectural detail with the most approved examples of the
Tudor period. The directors of this institution well deserve
the support of the community for such a display of spirit and
taste, and it will be a disgrace to the town if the sum still
required to carry their intentions into full effect be not
speedily provided, so as to permit the building to be opened
free of debt.

As this institution will embrace all classes, it should re-
ceive the most extended aid. The wealthy cannot apply their
money more advantageously than iu securing for their chil-
dren and townsmen a Christian education; and those pos-
sessed of less extensive means may surely spare a smaller
portion in aid of such philanthropic objects. Let no one think
that the amount which he can afford will be of little avail—
the number of Roman Catholic chapels built by the poor
man's pence, the O'Connell rent, the postoffice receipts, and
numerous other occurrences, teach us how much may be
effected by the confluence even of pennies.
For the gratification of our country subscribers we present
above a view of the Collegiate Institution, and the following
notice respecting it is copied from the British Almanac for
th- ensuing year, and will no doubt prove interesting to our

After describing the Assize Courts, a view Of which
is likewise given, the writer thus proceeds :
" Altogether different in character from the preceding, al-
though by the same architect, is this other important struc-
ture, [The Liverpool Collegiate In tilution,] now in progress
in Liverpool, for which Mr. Elnies's design obtained the
first premium from those sent in by twenty-eight other com-
petitors, all of whom were restricted to the Tudor style. A
piece of ground for the purpose had been originally purchased
in Soho-street, but it was afterwards determined to abandon
that site for the present one in Shaw-street, on the south of
Augustine's Church, from which the building will be sepa-
rated by a wide street on its north side, and will be similarly
detached on its south, so that it has three distinct elevations,
of which the west or principal one (represented above) faces
Shaw-street. The first stone was laid October 22, BA by
Lord Stanley, with an inscription upon it, purporting that
the institution is for `the education of the commercial,
trading, and working classes, in accordance with the doctrines
of the Church of England.' Although incapable of doing
more. the above cut will serve to explain the general design
of the facade towards Shaw-street, which is a uniform com-
position, 280 feet in extent, collegiate in its a2peet, and con-

sistently decorated throughout. It is composed of three
main divisions, viz., a centre and two slightly projecting
wings; for, though advanced forward, the middle compart-
ment (containing the entrance, porch below, and an open
arch above it forming a balcony) identities itself with the
central portion, and hardly interrupts its continuity, it
not being carried up like a tower rising above the rest.
As little, too, do the wings or extreme compartments
break the general mass, being distinguished in their
outline merely by the slight gable form given to their
parapet by the canopied niche and statue there introduced.
In other respects, these portions of the design are agreeably
varied from the body or principal division of the front, and
the lofty oriel windows carried up through two stories acquire
additional effect in consequence of there being no windows
below them on the ground floor, a circumstance that gives
solidity and repose to the angles of the structure. The ele-
vation contains three tiers of windows, three of the two upper
floors being combined together with a general composition
producing the effect of a single range of lofty windows. The
apartments on the ground floor are 14 feet high and 25 feet
wide, and placed on either side of a corridor running the
entire length of the building. They consist of 11 school-
rooms (2 of 50 feet long, 1 of 43, 2 of 41, 2 of 34, 2 of 25, and
2 of 22), besides keeper's rooms, vestibules, 3 staircases,
waiting-rooms, and others of a subordinate nature. On the
first floor are,—the board-room, secretary's room, library,
and 10 school-rooms (2 of 50 feet long, 2 of 41, 2 of 38, 2 of
25, and 2 of 22), all of 7 feet high, and of the same width as
those of the preceding story, which, indeed, is uniform
throughout. On the second are 13 school-rooms (2 of 50, 2
of 43, .2 of 41, 2 of 38, 2 of 25, 2 of 22, and 1 of 16), all 14 feet
high. There is besides an attic or third floor, 16 feet high,
with an arched ceiling, containing th 4 same-sized rooms as
the story below, lighted from the roof, (intended to serve as
a museum,) rooms for drawing, and a painting and sculpture
gallery, which last covers 5 of the rooms beneath, being 218
feet in length. An octagonal building behind, upwards of
90 feet in diameter, and connected to the main building by
corridors leading from each floor, contains a number of

spacious dining-rooms, kitchen. &c., and above, a theatre,
affording seats for upwards of 200 persons. Behind the latter
is a spacious organ. or music-room, capable of being thrown
open to, or shut off from, it at pleasure ; to the right arid left
of which are six angular apartments, intended for waiting
and class-rooms. Immediately beneath the music-room, and
communicating with the lecturer's platform, are a laboratory,
apparatus-room, lecturer's retiring-room, &c. The material
used for the building is sandstone, from the neighbourhood ;
and the works are contracted for at £21,379."

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