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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)

Colour photograph of detail of preliminary drawing for Liverpool Cathedral competition showing entrance to S. transept

1880
Anglican diocese of Liverpool created. 1
1884–6
Architectural competition held for the design of a new cathedral on a site next to St George's Hall. William Emerson's design preferred, but building not proceeded with. 2
1901
23 September: Terms of new architectural competition agreeed, including the statement that the style is to be Gothic. 3
28 October: Revised competition terms agreed, omitting the Gothic requirement and extending the closing date to 30 June 1902. 4
1902
14 April: George Frederick Bodley and Richard Norman Shaw invited to act as assessors. 5
9 May: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh pay Maclure & MacDonald for photographing Liverpool Cathedral drawings. 6
30 June: Closing date for submissions. 7
July: Designs exhibited to the press in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, from 21 to 25 July, and to the public from 23 to 26 July. 8
August: Assessors' report written. 9
22 September: Assessors' report accepted by Executive Committee, and ordered to be distributed to all entrants. Austin & Paley, C. A. Nicholson, Giles Gilbert Scott, Malcolm Stark and W. J. Tapper selected to take part in second stage of competition. 10
1903
Giles Gilbert Scott selected as overall winner; Bodley appointed joint architect with Scott, because of Scott's youth and inexperience. 11
1904
19 July: Foundation stone laid by King Edward VII. 12

Notes:

1: Vere E. Cotton, The Book of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1964, p. 1.

2: British Architect, 21, 16 May 1884, p. 240; 26, 17 December 1886, p. 547. Vere E. Cotton, The Book of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1964, p. 1.

3: Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343, Executive Committee minutes, 23 September 1901.

4: Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343, Executive Committee minutes, 28 October 1901.

5: Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343, Executive Committee minutes, 14 April 1902.

6: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh / Keppie Henderson cash book, 1889–1917, GLAHA 53079, p. 71.

7: Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343, Executive Committee minutes, 28 October 1901.

8: Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343, Executive Committee minutes, 7 July 1902 , 17 July 1902.

9: Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343, George Frederick Bodley and Richard Norman Shaw, Report on the designs submitted in the preliminary competition for the proposed Cathedral for the Diocese of Liverpool, August 1902 (bound with committee minutes).

10: Liverpool Record Office: Liverpool Cathedral Committee records, Acc. 2343, Executive Committee minutes, 22 September 1902.

11: Vere E. Cotton, The Book of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1964, p. 3.

12: Vere E. Cotton, The Book of Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1964, p. 5.