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about Giles. Aged 21, Giles Gilbert Scott (George’s son) entered and won the
design competition, for a new cathedral in Liverpool. Until this point he had
only designed a pipe rack. The good and the great of Liverpool were hesitant
about their decision so Giles built the Lady Chapel as a starter, under supervision
of G.F. Bodley, and together they had finished it by 1910.
The
Cathedral Church of Christ is bigger than St Paul’s or Westminster Abbey.
Blessed with the largest Gothic arches in the world, it almost overpowers with
its height and breadth.
The cathedral
was finished in 1978, nearly two decades after Scott's death. Liverpool, like
Coventry and Canterbury, looms large in the canon of our great church
buildings.
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