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Liverpool Cathedral is a Protestant
Anglican Church of England.
The modern Roman Catholic Metropolitan
Cathedral of Liverpool is
half of a mile north.
1880 - J. C. Ryle became the first
Bishop of Liverpool, using the small St
Peter Church on Church Street.
1885 - a new Cathedral was to be built
next to St George's Hall by the Train
Station, but the area was too small for a
huge Cathedral.
1904 - the building of Liverpool
Cathedral began to the designs of Giles
Gilbert Scott, half of a mile southeast
of St George's Hall at St James's
Mount.
1910 - the Lady Chapel was
completed.
1914 - 1918 - work slowed during World
War One.
1920 - work began again with a full
workforce.
1930s - the Whitechapel Bellfoundry in
London made the Bells for the Cathedral,
the heaviest and highest ringing peal of
bells in the world.
1939 - the outbreak of World War Two
led to a reduced workforce again.
1940 Sept 5th - Liverpool Cathedral
was damaged by German Aircraft Bombs.
1948 - work began on the Cathedral
again at full pace.
1960 - Giles Gilbert
Scott died aged 70.
1962 - work began on the much smaller
and modern Liverpool Metropolitan
Cathedral half of a mile north.
1967 - Liverpool Metropolitan
Cathedral was completed.
1978 October - Liverpool Cathedral was
completed as the largest in the UK,
longest in the World, 8th largest Church
in the World by volume.
World's
Largest Churches List
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