• Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral has listing upgraded to Grade I

    Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, AKA ‘the Wigwam’, recognised as one of UK’s most important buildingsIt’s known locally as the “Wigwam” or the “Mersey Funnel”, although one architect also likened it to “a gargantuan concrete aberration from the Apollo space programme”.Love it or not, Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral can now be regarded as one of the most important buildings in the UK. Continue reading...
  • ‘A dazzling concrete crown’: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral gets long overdue appreciation

    A genius response bridging of history and modernity with daring interior and exterior, it is shocking it wasn’t already Grade I-listedLiverpool’s Catholic cathedral has listing upgraded to Grade ILiverpool’s majestic cosmic wigwam has always faced a hard time from critics. Classicists lamented that it replaced an earlier swollen baroque design by Edwin Lutyens, which was cut short by the second world war and rising costs. Modernists found it too prissy, a brittle British versio

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