Inside Detail of the Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool
John Charles Ryle was installed as the first Bishop of Liverpool in 1880, but the diocese had no cathedral, merely a "pro-cathedral" in the rather ordinary parish church of St. Peter's, Liverpool. Following much debate, church and civic leaders agreed a new cathedral should be built and in 1902 held an open competition to select a design. For architects, this was a very significant event; not only was it to be one of the largest building projects of the 20th century, but this was only the third opportunity to build an Anglican cathedral in England following the Reformation of the 16th century . In 1903 the assessors, George Bodley and Norman Shaw, selected a proposal submitted by the 22-year-old student Giles Gilbert Scott despite the fact that he had no previous buildings to his credit. The choice of winner was even more contentious with the cathedral committee when it was discovered that Scott was a Roman Catholic, but the decision stood. The foundation stone was laid by King Edward VII in 1904, with the first element, the Lady Chapel, opening in 1910. It was at this time that Scott, free of Bodley and growing in confidence, submitted an entirely new design for the remaining (main) part of the structure.
Size: 3300px × 5139px
Location: St. James Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside
Photo credit: © eli pascall-willis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1961, 2008, anglican, architecture, awesome, beatiful, bishop, capital, cathedral, christian, christianity, completed, culture, england, european, filter, gilbert, giles, glass, god, gothic, heritage, holy, liverpool, masterpiece, merseyside, neo, polorising, polorizing, scott’, sir, spectacular, stained
