Liverpool Cathedral
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Liverpool Cathedral is built in the 20th century Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool . It is one of the last large churches to be built in the neo-Gothic style. The church, whose official name is Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool , is dedicated to Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary .
history
The Church of England created its own diocese for the rapidly growing port city as early as 1880 . However, initially there was a lack of an adequately representative church building. As a result of a competition in which, among others, Charles Rennie Mackintosh took part, the project of the then 23-year-old (and Catholic) student Giles Gilbert Scott was awarded a prize. Scott, who comes from a renowned family of architects and later known for his Battersea Power Station and the design of the red British telephone booths, remained associated with building churches in Liverpool his entire life. In the course of time, he reduced the neo-Gothic character of the building, tried to create a more contemporary form of monumentality and even included elements from Mackintosh's design in his planning.
The foundation stone for the cathedral, located on St. James' Mount in the center of the city, was laid in 1904, and construction progress was relatively slow at first. The church was consecrated in 1924, but only part of the transept was available to the faithful, and regular services were not held until 1940. The landmark crossing tower, around 100 meters high, was designed as a lantern tower and completed in 1942; the main nave was only usable in stages after the Second World War, and the construction work was not completed until 1978.
architecture
The apse-free building, with its cruciform floor plan and three-aisles, is based on the medieval cathedral architecture of England, with decorated style shapes dominating.
literature
- VE Cotton: The Book of Liverpool Cathedral , Liverpool 1964
- Paul Smets : Organ Monographs 7 - The organ of Christ Cathedral in Liverpool . Rheingold-Verlag, Mainz 1945.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 51 ″ N , 2 ° 58 ′ 24 ″ W.