Blue Coat Chambers
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Bluecoat Chambers, School Lane. Opened in 1718 and is a Grade I listed building.
It is one of the earliest surviving buildings in the city centre. Built originally as a charity school and paid for by Bryan Blundell, a Liverpool sea captain and merchant.

The school (Bluecoat School) remained in the building until 1906, when it relocated to much larger premises in the Liverpool suburb of Wavertree. In 1909 the first Lord Leverhulme bought the building with the intention of using it as a centre for the arts, but with the intervention of the First World War, work ceased. The building was eventually purchased in 1925 by the Bluecoat Society of Arts and is still used for the Arts in Liverpool.