Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Circular modernist cathedral of concrete and glass, crowned by a lantern of vivid stained glass.
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This guide to Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral follows the city's weather rather than its clergy: the rain that found its way into Frederick Gibberd's concrete wigwam soon after it opened in nineteen sixty-seven. It touches Archbishop Downey's dream of a vast cathedral, a lawsuit, and years of patched roofs and peeling mosaic. Best heard standing beneath the central lantern, looking up into the coloured glass.
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