Coordinates: 53°22′11″N 2°52′57″W / 53.3696°N 2.8825°W Allerton Priory, Liverpool, England, is a Grade II* listed building designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
It has been a home for the elderly, nuns once ran it as a refuge for Irish girls. It was temporary certified 18 May 1916 for 15 girls, re-certified 1917 as a mixed school as Allerton Priory Special Industrial School for mentally defective girls under 15'. It ceased to be a Home Office school in 1933. The Nuns owned the property until the 80's taken over and converted to a Nursing Home. It was managed by a local family until the late nineties but has since been converted into apartments.
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