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Liverpool currently has 28 Grade I listed buildings, including the Metropolitan Cathedral. These include Albert Dock, Bank of ...
Looking a bit like a large piece of moon-landing equipment on which you’d best not sit, with indoor lighting that wouldn’t look out of place in a nightclub, the building has ever divided opinions.
Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, designed by Frederick Gibberd and completed in 1967, has been elevated ...
The elevation of Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral is acknowledgement at the highest level of Sir Frederick Gibberd’s radical design and the way it has ...
“Sir Frederick Gibberd’s masterpiece, built upon Lutyens’ earlier crypt, showcases extraordinary artistic collaboration and stands as one of Britain’s most significant post-war architectural ...
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has awarded The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Grade I-listed status, following advice from Historic England. The cathedral, previously Grade II* ...
These photos taken between 1962 and 1967 show the construction of the cathedral and the ever-evolving Liverpool skyline ...
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has awarded The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Grade I-listed status, following advice from Historic England. The cathedral, previously Grade II* ...
The Catholic cathedral, which sits at the opposite end of Hope Street to its Anglican counterpart, was designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd and built between 1962 and 1967.
It was built over an earlier Sir Edwin Lutyens-designed crypt, intended to be part of a grand classical-style Catholic cathedral in Liverpool that began in the 1930s, but construction was halted ...