County Sessions House, Liverpool

The County Sessions House stands at the top of William Brown Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, to the east of the Walker Art Gallery. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. The courthouse was built between 1882 and 1884, and was designed by the Liverpool architects F & G Holme. It functioned as a local county courthouse, and contained three courtrooms, chambers for barristers and judges, cells, and facilities for administration. It is no longer used for these purposes. The building is constructed in ashlar stone on a granite base. Although its appearance is Neoclassical, its style is described as being "late Victorian" and "derived from Renaissance Venice rather than ancient Greece and Rome"....