Church of St Clement, Liverpool

The Church of St Clement stands in Beaumont Street, Toxteth, Liverpool. It is an active Anglican parish church designed by Arthur and George Yates Williams and built in 1840–41. The building is recorded on the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed structure. A west porch was added later, and in 1892 a spiral staircase replaced the original straight flight to the pulpit. In 1984 a screen was installed under the west gallery to create a parish room. The church’s exterior is of stone with a slate roof and a seven-bay nave leading to a shallow canted apse at the east end. Lancet windows sit between buttresses along the sides, with gabled buttresses at the corners. The west end features a projecting bay with three stepped lancet windows and an octagonal bell turret topped by a short spire. A pointed entrance porch projects from this bay, and the east end apse has a hipped roof and a triple lancet window. Inside, galleries on three sides overlook the nave, with the organ at the west end supported by cast iron columns. A screen divides the west gallery to form a separate enclosed area. The altar sits in a shallow polygonal recess at the east end, flanked by boards inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The pulpit is a two-decker reached by a spiral staircase, and the box pews include some removed around the pulpit. The plaster vaulted ceiling is painted with stars, described by Pollard and Pevsner as a rare survival of a nearly complete pre-Ecclesiological Victorian church.