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Bluecoat Chambers
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<p>Built in 1716–17 as a <a href="/facts/Charity_school/npXrNEnA">charity school</a>, Bluecoat Chambers in School Lane is the oldest surviving building in central <a href="/facts/Liverpool/kTqATlxg">Liverpool</a>, <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">England</a>. Following the <a href="/facts/Liverpool_Blue_Coat_School/xkr3DQ30">Liverpool Blue Coat School</a>'s move to another site in 1906, the building was rented from 1907 onwards by the Sandon Studios Society. 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 <a href="/facts/Arts_centre/Fpy4wwoB">arts centre</a> in Great Britain, now called the Bluecoat. </p>