1923 – F.W. Woolworth Store, Church St., Liverpool
Architect: W.R. Priddle
Huge department store, a cathedral of commerce,
1924 – Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool
Architect: Giles Gilbert Scott
In 1902 an open design competition to design a cathedral attracted over 100 entries including designs from noted architects such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
1930 – Lutyens’ design for Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool
Architect: Sir Edwin Lutyens
Following the purchase of a site at Brownlow Hill in 1930,
1934 – Mersey Tunnel Building, Liverpool
Architect: Herbert James Rowse
Constructed to contain both offices and ventilator equipment for the Queensway Tunnel.
1934 – North John Street Ventilation Station, Liverpool
Architect: Herbert James Rowse
Architect’s sketch proposal for ventilation station on Mersey tunnel.
1934 – Woodside Ventilation Station, Birkenhead, Lancashire
Architect: Herbert James Rowse
One of six such installations serving the Queensway Mersey Tunnel,
1943 – Plan for Liverpool around Lutyen’s Cathedral
Architect: Edwin Lutyens
Lutyens’ unrealised vision for a re-arranged Liverpool centred around his uncompleted cathedral.
1967 – Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Architect: Frederick Gibberd
In 1930 Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then emerging at the other end of Hope Street.
