Liverpool Cathedral is the largest cathedral in Britain and fifth largest in the world, built between 1904 and 1978. It was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, perhaps most famous for designing the iconic red telephone box.
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Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
Categories: England, Liverpool
Tags: architecture, cathedral, photo post, stained glass, stained glass window, statue
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The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is another place that was on my must visit list (also included in the I amsterdam card) and I ended up visiting it straight after the Van Gogh Museum (they are located very close together). Originally I’d planned to visit the Rijksmuseum later in the day as the museum states that lunchtime is the busiest time of day but seeing as it was very hot but raining buckets I decided to go in at lunchtime anyways so as to be out of the rain and found that I could walk straight in without having to queue after all.
Categories: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tags: architecture, art gallery, flower pyramid, library, museum, photo post, Pierre Cuypers, stained glass window
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Throwback Thursday: The Nottingham Industrial Museum
The Nottingham Industrial Museum is based in part of the 17th century stable block at Wollaton Hall and as it’s only open on weekends and Bank Holidays it took quite a while before I got around to visiting. It focuses on a wide range of Nottingham industries including lace, bicycles and mining.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, Black Boy Hotel, framework knitters, industrial museum, photo post, watson fothergill, Wollaton Hall
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Merchant Adventurer’s Hall, York
The Merchant Adventurer’s Hall is a Grade I listed timber framed building built in around 1357 by a fraternity of York citizens as a charity and business that became the Company of Merchant Adventurers of York in the 16th century.
Categories: England, York, Yorkshire
Tags: architecture, history, Merchant Adventurers, stained glass, stained glass window, timber framed building
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Throwback Thursday: The Royal Masonic Trust for Boys and Girls
This building in London used to house the Royal Masonic Trust for Boys and Girls, a charitable children’s organisation that still has offices further down the street.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, building, london, Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys, william blake
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Throwback Thursday: St Leonard’s Church, Wollaton
St Leonard’s Church in Wollaton, Nottingham, has been around since the 1200s and it would have fallen under the care of the Mortein and then the Willoughby families, owners of the nearby Wollaton Hall.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, church, history, monument, photo post, stained glass, Wollaton, wollaton antiphonal, Wollaton Hall
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Watson Fothergill’s Offices
Watson Fothergill is one of my favourite Nottingham architects and I’ve written about him several times before. He had to move his architectural offices to George Street in Nottingham due to the building of the then Nottingham Victoria railway station (now Victoria Centre shopping centre) and this Grade II listed building was built in 1895. In 2015 part of the frontage was damaged by a truck and finally in the last month or so it has been repaired, so I went along to take photos. It says something about how well loved the building is that while I was there several people came up to me to express how pleased they were with the quality of the repair work.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, nottingham, statue, watson fothergill, watson fothergill's offices
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Throwback Thursday: Marble Arch
Marble Arch was originally designed as an entrance to Buckingham Palace by the architect John Nash in 1827 but was completed in 1833 by Edward Blore. A well known but untrue story is that it was moved to its present site at Hyde Park because it was too narrow for Queen Victoria’s state coach to pass through, however the coach passed through the arch in 1838 on the way to her coronation without any problems; more likely it was moved as Queen Victoria and her family needed more space and the fourth wing of the Palace was built where it once stood. It moved to its current location in 1850.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, e. j. baily, edward blore, hyde park, john nash, marble arch, photo post, statues
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Throwback Thursday: Cheniston Lodge
This striking looking building is Cheniston Lodge in Kensington, designed in the Queen Anne style and dating from 1885. During the Second World War it was used as an Air Raid precaution store and depot and then converted to a Register Office, and now appears to have returned to being a home. Interestingly the Lodge itself was built on the site of what had been the Catholic University College, set up by Thomas Capel in 1874 to provide higher education to Catholics who were banned at the time from attending Oxford and Cambridge. The site was sold off in 1879 as the University’s experiment ended in failure, mostly due to lack of funds.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, cheniston lodge, kensington, london, photo post
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Throwback Thursday: The Houses of Parliament
The Houses of Parliament, or more correctly the Palace of Westminster, doesn’t really need any introduction. It is thanks to a fire which destroyed much of the site of the palace in 1834 that we owe the present design of the building (the Jewel Tower was among the few buildings to survive intact).
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, augustus pugin, Big Ben, Charles Barry, Elizabeth Tower, houses of parliament, Oliver Cromwell, palace of westminster, photo post, Richard I, statue
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