LIVERPOOL FIELDTRIP 2

You may not be religious or a fan of churches and cathedrals – but if you are a fan of modernist buildings – which we certainly are at Absolute Zero Degrees – Sir Frederick Gibberd’s ‘Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King’ is well woth a visit if you happen to be on a short stay in Liverpool.

Architects throughout the world were invited in 1960 to design a Cathedral for Liverpool which would relate to the existing Crypt, be capable of construction within five years, cost at the current prices no more than one million pounds for its shell, and most important of all, express Archbishop Downey’s dream of creating ‘A Cathedral in our time’.

Building began in October 1962 and opened on the 14 May 1967.

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