Giles Gilbert Scott's red sandstone cathedral above the Mersey, begun in 1904 and the largest cathedral in Britain
Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral took 74 years to build. Giles Gilbert Scott won the competition to design it while still in his twenties, work started in 1904, and the last stone went on in 1978, long after his death in 1960. The result is the largest cathedral in Britain and, counting its Lady Chapel, the longest in the world, 189 m from end to end outside. Most of it is built of a pinkish-red sandstone from quarries at Woolton in the south of the city. The central tower rises 101 m, and visitors can go up it for views over the city and the Mersey. A pink neon work by Tracey Emin has hung at the west end since 2008. Hope Street runs about 800 m north to the Metropolitan Cathedral, and Liverpool Central station is about 900 m away.
