A Cathedral to Spare*
Posted in Architecture, Trips at 12:00 on 13 October 2018
I thought I’d take a respite from Norway for a while so here are some pictures of Liverpool where our friends from Rochdale took us on one of our days with them.
Liverpool is a bustling city with a lot of fine architecture.
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral from the side of the River Mersey:-
It’s a traditional kind of building, quite chunky and solid.
View from the road:-
Liverpool Catholic Cathedral is by contrast in a much more modern style, a bit like a tepee in appearance:-
Keeping up the ecclesiastical theme, the bus tour we were taken on stopped at traffic lights by St Luke’s, a bombed out church which wasn’t restored after World War 2 as reminder and memorial:-
St Luke’s bombed out church:-
St Luke’s Church spire:-
*As the line from the song In my Liverpool Home has it,
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