Hope Street and Cathedrals

The Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King is recognizable by its circular form and the sixteen concrete ribs that rise to support a massive, crown-like lantern. Standing on Brownlow Hill, the structure occupies a site…

The Everyman Theatre on Hope Street is marked by a west-facing facade featuring one hundred and five life-size portraits of local residents cut into movable aluminium sunshades. Four large cylindrical chimneys rise from the roof, providing…

The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, known locally as The Phil, stands on the corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street with a facade of exuberant stone carvings and tall, stepped gables. Designed by architect Walter W. Thomas and completed…

Ye Cracke sits on Rice Street in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter, identifiable by its narrow entrance and a history that stretches back to eighteen sixty-two. Originally opened as The Ruthin Castle, the pub took its current name from a local…

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts occupies a prominent, restored Georgian-era building that once served as the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. You can identify the site by its historic facade, which now houses a…

Gambier Terrace is a row of nineteenth-century Georgian houses that faces the sprawling grounds of Saint James's Mount and the Liverpool Cathedral. Built between eighteen thirty-two and eighteen thirty-seven and named for Admiral James…

Liverpool Cathedral is the largest church in the United Kingdom, dominated by a massive central tower that rises over three hundred feet above the River Mersey. Built of hand-worked red sandstone, the cathedral sits atop St James’s Mount,…

Saint James' Gardens sits as a sunken, lush urban park locked within the walls of a former stone quarry. You can recognize this site by the way its deep, quiet floor drops well below the surrounding street level, leaving it sheltered by…