Competition design for Liverpool Cathedral

M203 Competition design for Liverpool Cathedral

Address: St James's Mount, Liverpool
Date: 1901–2
Client: Liverpool Cathedral Committee
Authorship: Authorship category 1 (Mackintosh) (Mackintosh)

Principal published and unpublished sources.

Published

Books

  • Vere E. Cotton, The Book of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1964
  • Alan Crawford, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, London: Thames & Hudson, 1995, pp. 87–8
  • Sarah Crewe, ed., Visionary Spires, London: Waterstone, 1986, pp. 104–19
  • Thomas Howarth, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd edn, 1977, pp. 184–7
  • James Macaulay, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, New York: W. W. Norton, 2010, pp. 186–7
  • Robert Macleod, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architect and Artist, London: Collins, 1983, pp. 108–10

Journals

  • E. S. Prior and F. M. Simpson, 'The new Cathedral for Liverpool. Its site and style', Architectural Review, 10, 1901, pp. 138–46
  • 'Liverpool Cathedral: a protest and petition', Architectural Review, 10. 1901, pp. 163–77
  • Architectural Review, 12, September 1902, pp. 83–4
  • British Architect, 56, 23 August 1901, p. 125; 15 November 1901, p. 341
  • British Architect, 58, 25 July 1902, pp. 55–6
  • British Architect, 59, 13 March 1903, p. 186
  • Builder, 83, 26 July 1902, p. 70
  • Builders' Journal and Architectural Record, 16, 30 July 1902, p. 380

Unpublished

  • Rodney W. Hanson, The Last Triumph of the Gothic: An Account of the Second Competition for an Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool 1901–1903, University of Liverpool dissertation, no date
  • Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, letter from Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh to Herman Muthesius, 24 September 1902
  • Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, letter from Mackintosh to Hermann Muthesius, undated, but after 22 September 1902
  • Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, letter from Margaret Mackintosh to Frau Muthesius, undated, but probably autumn 1902
  • Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, Muthesius Letter Book 1, letter from Hermann Muthesius to Mackintosh, 31 December 1902
  • Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, letter from Mackintosh to Hermann Muthesius, 5 January 1903
  • Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343 (uncatalogued)