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Liverpool’s Two Cathedrals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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Liverpool was a great port in the eighteenth century and after the Industrial Revolution its growth was spectacular. This is reflected in the heritage of public buildings designed on a scale and with a richness of detail which surprises many visitors, but because the affluence of the city was so sustained, the people of Liverpool came to think of their city not so much as a provincial town, but as a great metropolis, and when they built, they usually built on a grand scale.
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1 There is a good and more detailed account of the public buildings in Liverpool in Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lancashire 1, The Industrial and Commercial South—The Buildings of England Series (Harmondsworth, 1969), pp. 141 ff.Google Scholar
2 References to the early projects for the cathedral are taken from the summary in Pevsner, Lancashire I, p. 187, and the main published history of the project: Cotton, Vere E., The Book of Liverpool Cathedral (Liverpool, 1964)Google Scholar, see esp. ch. 1.
3 Source material for the Metropolitan Cathedral is less readily available in summary form. For the early history of the diocese see Taylor, Cyril, The History of Liverpool’s Catholic Cathedral, in Souvenir of the Solemn Opening of the Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt (Liverpool, 1958)Google Scholar, and for the context of the Lutyens design see Hussey, Christopher, The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens (London, 1950)Google Scholar, ch. 18.
4 This design is illustrated in the 1990 version of the cathedral guide.
5 The 3 premiated designs and a selection of the rest are illustrated in Architects’Journal, 132 (1 Sept. 1960), pp. 313-33. For the finished design see the appraisal by Nicholas Taylor, ‘Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool’, Architectural Review, 141 (June 1967), pp. 432–48.
6 There is as yet no biography of Scott. The most useful summary of his career is still the obituary notice: RIBA Journal, 67 (April 1960), pp. 221-2, which was written by Sir Hubert Worthington.
7 See Cole, David, The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott (London, 1980).Google Scholar
8 This was illustrated and reviewed: Jones, Peter Blundell, ‘All Saints Brockhampton’, Architects’ Journal, 192 (15 Aug. 1990), pp. 24–43.Google Scholar
9 A good contemporary account of this church is Hawkes, Dean, ‘St. Andrew’s Roker’, Architects’ Journal, 181 (30 Jan. 1985), pp. 20–38.Google Scholar
10 Again, no proper account of Temple Moore’s architecture is available: see Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire, The West Riding—The Buildings of England Series (Harmondsworth, 1959), p. 248.Google Scholar
11 The most useful account of Bodley’s work is in Basi] F. L. Clarke, Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1938; repr. Newton Abbot, 1969), pp. 209ff.
12 The evolution of the new design is well illustrated and described in Cotton, Liverpool Cathedral, ch. 3. I have also drawn upon the unpublished study by one of my students, R. W. Hanson, ‘The Last Triumph of Gothic’ (Liverpool, B.Arch. dissertation, 1983).
13 There is an interesting contemporary assessment of the design by Reilly, C. H., Some Architectural Problems of Today (Liverpool and London, 1924), ch. 23: ‘Liverpool Cathedral’, pp. 184–200.Google Scholar
14 Pevsner, Lancashire I, p. 190.
15 There are two churches crowning the hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb, the parish church of St Jude and the Free Church, both 1908-10.
16 Hussey, Edwin Lutyens.
17 Pevsner, Lancashire I, pp. 154-7, is particularly interesting on the Metropolitan Cathedral which, clearly, he did not much like. His assessment both of the exterior form and the interior space is an important assessment by an architectural historian of our earlier generation.