 The view of Hope Street begins and ends with two cathedrals, graphically symbolising the history of Liverpool's religious culture.
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The Anglican Cathedral's Gothic structure stretches out like an angel, looking down from Heaven, as it hovers above the River Mersey on St. James's Mount.
The design is based on a structure built between 500AD and the 13th Century, yet it was built in the 20th Century (1904-1974) and designed by George Gilbert Scott, later knighted for his services to architecture.
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The Cathedral was the first to be consecrated in England on a wholly new site since the 13th Century. The concept was brought to the forefront when Liverpool became an official city in 1880 and a diocese in its own right. In 1885, Parliament gave permission for a Cathedral to be built |
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