| The Bluecoat | |
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  Location within Liverpool | |
| Former names | Bluecoat School Bluecoat Chambers Bluecoat Arts Centre |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| Location | School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England |
| Coordinates | 53°24′15″N 2°59′02″W / 53.4042°N 2.9839°W |
| Construction started | 1716 |
| Completed | 1725 |
| Website | |
| www | |
Built in 1716–17 as a charity school, Bluecoat Chambers in School Lane is the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool, England.[1] Following the Liverpool Blue Coat School's move to another site in 1906, the building was rented from 1907 onwards by the Sandon Studios Society.[2] Based on the presence of this art society and the subsequent formation of the Bluecoat Society of Arts in 1927, the successor organisation laid claim to being the oldest arts centre in Great Britain, now called the Bluecoat.
- ^ Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006), The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, pp. 302–304, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
- ^ The story so far Archived 4 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, The Bluecoat, c. 2008