Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Eng. Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, in Liverpool, England is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool and the parish church of the city.

History, Structure

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

Due to lack of funds the work on the building at that time have been set. After that, the Lady Chapel was used until its demolition in the 1980s as a parish church.

After purchasing a nine -acre building site on the Brownlow Hill, Sir Edwin Lutyens was commissioned to prepare a draft which should be an appropriate response to the designed by Gilbert Scott Gothic Anglican Cathedral. Lutyens planned a huge cathedral classical and Byzantine design that would become the largest dome is the second largest church in the world. The base of the new building was laid on June 5, 1933, but after completion of crypt resulted in shortage of money again to cancel the construction work.

The new cathedral, designed by Sir Frederick Gibbert and consecrated by Augustine Harris in 1967, was built next to the crypt. The circular floor plan was conceived in response to the requirements of the Liturgy Constitution of the Second Vatican Council for a closer and more active compound of the worshiping congregation with what's happening at the altar.

Chapels were built into the buttress that supports the tent-shaped tip. The Church peak represents the crown of thorns of Jesus represents a small film ( Crown of Glass ) documents the production and construction of the rainbow-colored church windows. The cathedral stands next to the Liverpool Workhouse in Hope Street.

Equipment

In the cathedral there are three organs. The great organ was built in 1968 by organ builder Walker & Sons. The instrument has 88 registers ( 4,565 pipes ), including several transmissions, four manuals and pedal. The tracker action is electro- pneumatic. The game table is at ground level in the nave.