Hope Street and Cathedrals

The Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral features a high, circular nave topped by a lantern tower made of jagged, colorful stained glass. Architects and locals call it Paddy’s Wigwam because of that conical shape and its prominence in the…

The Everyman Theatre features a facade of one hundred five movable metal sunshades, each laser-cut with the silhouettes of local people. This building replaced a former chapel that housed the theatre since nineteen sixty-four. When the…

The Philharmonic Dining Rooms features a set of ornate, cast-iron gates that stretch across the entrance, their intricate patterns framing the doorway. Built in the eighteen nineties, the pub serves as a high-water mark for the exuberant,…

The three-story brick facade of Ye Cracke stands on Rice Street, marked by a faded sign and a narrow, unassuming entrance. This pub dates back to the nineteenth century and served as a regular haunt for John Lennon during his time at the…

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts occupies a grand, red-brick building with tall arched windows on Mount Street. It began as a boys' school, founded in eighteen twenty-five, which counted a young Paul McCartney among its…

Gambier Terrace consists of a row of fourteen tall, neoclassical houses built of sandstone, characterized by their severe, uniform facades and cast-iron balconies. Completed around eighteen thirty-seven, these homes were designed for the…

The red sandstone walls of Liverpool Cathedral rise over the city with a jagged, fortress-like silhouette that defies the traditional grace of English Gothic. Giles Gilbert Scott began this project in nineteen oh four when he was only…

Saint James' Gardens sits in a deep, rectangular stone ravine, sunken well below the surrounding street level. Before this became a public park in the nineteen-sixties, it served as a cemetery for the adjacent Anglican Cathedral. Workers…