Xavier's School site in Everton (the school itself having moved to Woolton in the 1960s) being purchased and developed as the Creative Campus in 1999.
=== The present-day university ===
Hope achieved taught degree awarding powers in 2002, and three years later was awarded university status, becoming Liverpool Hope University. Research degree awarding powers and full independence followed in 2009.
== Campuses ==
The university has two teaching campuses. The larger of these (though still small, with a built area occupying around 30 acres) is Hope Park in Childwall, in the vicinity of Childwall Woods and Calderstones Park. The second campus is Creative Campus, closer to Liverpool city centre, and hosts the School of Creative and Performing Arts.
The university has a residential-only campus, Aigburth Park, in St Michael's, approximately three miles from the city centre and Hope Park.
The university also has an outdoor education centre, Plas Caerdeon.
=== Sheppard-Worlock Library ===
The Sheppard-Worlock Library is the university's main library. Located at Hope Park (there is also a small library at the Creative Campus), it is blended in to the Hilda Constance Allen Building, extending upwards an original low-rise block running east–west between two wings at the building's northern end. Previously the space had been occupied partly by kitchen and dining facilities.
The library was constructed in 1997 at a cost of £5.34m. A £1.5m refurbishment in 2012 included the creation of a British Standard vault for its special collections.
=== Special collections ===
The university's specialist campus for music and visual and performing arts teaching is the Creative Campus in Everton next to St Francis Xavier's Church. The university also has a residential-only campus, Aigburth Park in St Michael's, and Plas Caerdeon, an outdoor education centre in Snowdonia, North Wales.
The university's teaching campuses contain three Grade II listed buildings. One of these is the former main building of Saint Katharine's College at Hope …
