Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

This article covers the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool. For the Anglican cathedral see Liverpool Cathedral .

Rear of the cathedral at dusk

Interior

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King , engl. Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King , in Liverpool , England, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool and the city's parish church . The cathedral stands next to the Liverpool Workhouse on Hope Street.

History, building

After the Great Famine in Ireland that drove many Irish Catholics to England and the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England , in 1853 Bishop Goss gave Edward Welby Pugin , son of Augustus Welby Pugin (a co-architect of the Palace of Westminster and a master of the Gothic Revival ), the contract to build a new cathedral. The Lady Chapel of the new cathedral, which stands on land adjacent to St. Edward's Catholic College in Everton , was completed in 1856.

Due to a lack of money, work on the building was stopped at that time. The Marienkapelle then served as a parish church until it was demolished in the 1980s.

After purchasing a nine- acre lot on Brownlow Hill , Sir Edwin Lutyens was commissioned to create a design that would be a fitting response to the neo-Gothic Anglican cathedral designed by Gilbert Scott . Lutyens planned a huge cathedral of classical and Byzantine design, which would have become the second largest church in the world with the largest dome . The base of the new building was laid on June 5, 1933, but after the completion of the crypt , lack of money again led to the abandonment of the construction work.

The new cathedral, designed by Sir Frederick Gibbert from 1962 and consecrated by Augustine Harris in 1967 , was built next to the crypt. The circular floor plan with 16 props, a conical roof and a lantern with colored windows was conceived as a reaction to the requirements of the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council for a closer and more active connection between the worship community and what is happening at the altar. Chapels were built into the buttress that supports the tent-shaped top. The top of the church represents the crown of thorns of Jesus . A small film (Crown of Glass) documents the manufacture and construction of the rainbow-colored church windows. The striking glass sails in front of the cathedral were created in 2009/10 by the Heilbronn glass artist Raphael Seitz , who was an honorary professor in Liverpool.

Organs

There are three organs in the cathedral . The large organ was built in 1968 by the organ builder Walker & Sons. The instrument has 88 registers (4,565 pipes ), including several transmissions, on four manuals and pedal . The actions are electro-pneumatic. The game table is on the ground floor in the nave .

I Great C – g 3 Violone 16 ′ Open diapason 8th' Principal 8th' Gemshorn 8th' Stopped diapason 8th' Octave 4 ′ Chimney Flute 4 ′ Twelfth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Fifteenth 2 ′ recorder 2 ′ Mixture III Plein Jeu IV Contra trumpet 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Clarion 4 ′

II Swell C-g 3 Open diapason 8th' Reed flute 8th' Salicional 8th' Vox Angelica 8th' Principal 4 ′ Covered flute 4 ′ Twelfth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Great Octave 2 ′ Flageolet 2 ′ Sesquialtera II Sharp IV Double trumpet 16 ′ Bassoon 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Oboe da Caccia 8th' Shawm 8th' Tremulant

III Positive C-g 3 Covered 8th' Pointed flute 4 ′ Coupling flute 4 ′ Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Principal 2 ′ recorder 2 ′ Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sif flute 1' Cymbals III Krummhorn 8th' Contra trumpet 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Clarion 4 ′ Tremulant Auxiliary C – g 3 Quintatön 16 ′ Lovely covered 8th' Dulciana 8th' Dulcet 4 ′ Quintadena 4 ′ Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Quartane II

IV Solo C-g 3 Quintatön 16 ′ Orchestral Flute 8th' Viola da gamba 8th' Voix Celeste 8th' Lovely covered 8th' Dulciana 8th' Suabe Flute 4 ′ Quintadena 4 ′ Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Piccolo 2 ′ Quartane II Clarinet 8th' tuba 8th' Orchestral Trumpet 8th' Octave tuba 4 ′ Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Contra pointed flute 32 ′ Principal 16 ′ Violone 16 ′ Pointed flute 16 ′ Bourdon 16 ′ Quintatön 16 ′ Octave 8th' Octave pointed flute 8th' Bass flute 8th' Twelfth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Fifteenth 4 ′ Night horn 4 ′ Octave Flute 4 ′ Sif flute 2 ′ Mixture IV Contra trumpet 32 ′ trombone 8th' Bombard 16 ′ Bassoon 8th' Tromba 8th' shawm 4 ′

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilfried Koch: Baustilkunde - The standard work on European architecture from antiquity to the present . 32nd edition. Prestel Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7913-4997-8 , pp. 285 .
2. ↑ More information about the organ. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .  (English with translation functions)

Web links

Commons : Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Network presence of the cathedral

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 17 "  N , 2 ° 58 ′ 7"  W.