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The Liverpool Tapestry:
People, Places and Passions
The Metropolitan Cathedral of
Christ the King has a couple
of nicknames in Liverpool; the
‘
Mersey Funnel’, and the no-less
affectionate ‘Paddy’s Wigwam’.
As the song goes, the people of
Liverpool have “a cathedral to
spare”, but with both cathedrals
being built in the 20th century, I
would not like to be the one to
decide which is the spare!
Designed and built as a cheaper,
more modern design than the
original Lutyens cathedral designed
for the site, and sitting on the crypt
of that design which was all that
was constructed before World
War II intervened and halted the
building programme, it is a striking
design revolving around a central
altar with a stunning stained glass
lantern.
The two cathedrals sit either end
of Hope Street in Liverpool, and
the ‘two faiths joined by hope’ aptly
represent this ecumenical city and
its people. It was important to us to
represent this in the Tapestry.
Metropolitan Cathedral
of Christ the King
Designed by Elsie Watkins,
stitched by Maria Warburton