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A close up look at St George's Hall in Liverpool. We were heading for Walker Art Gallery.

Looks impressive. Reminds me of the Town Hall in Birmingham, except it's bigger!

St George's Hall is a Grade I listed building.

St George's Hall, Liverpool

SJ 3490 NE ST. GEORGE'S PLATEAU
L1

49/1037 St. George's Hall
28.6.52

G.V. I

Public hall and law courts. 1841-56, designed by H. L.
Elmes engineer Sir Robert Rawlinson, completed by C. R.
Cockerell. The form approximates to a Classical temple of
the Corinthian order, raised on a platform and approached by
flights of steps, but the ensemble is planned as a series of
aligned compartments, clothed with four different porticos,
the blind hamper of the central hall rising over the
continuous entablature. East facade has projecting central
Corinthian colonnade of 16 fluted columns flanked by 6-bay
loggias with unfluted Corinthian antae, the lower parts of
which are filled with relief scenes of allegorical figures
with Greek key band over. End bays flanked by angle
pilasters, with fielded panels. Central entrance in
architrave with frieze and consoled cornice, side entrances
have architraves. Two 4-light mullioned windows.
Entablature and parapet. Central hamper has rusticated
quoins and entablature. North facade has 9-bay semi-
circular projection with attached colonnade on basement with
3 entrances in architraves, cornices break through top of
basement. Entrances flanked by mermaids and tritons
carrying cornucopia-lamps. Windows have battered
architraves and casements. Flanking bays as above. West
facade. 3 storeys, with basement to 15-bay projecting
centre. Round windows to basement, others sashed, most with
glazing bars. Colonnade of unfluted antae has windows with
battered shouldered architraves between lower parts. Upper
loggia with blind end bays, open to the sky, large
architraved windows behind with casements. 7 bays to each
side with 3 storeys of sashed windows in architraves, those
to 2nd floor with consoled cornices and panelled sill
course. End bays as above. South facade has octastyle
pedimented portico with 2 rows of columns, behind which is a
large entrance in architrave with consoled cornice, flanked
by triton lamps. End bays as above. The sculptures on the
pediment have been removed. Interior has central hall
flanked by balconies over corridors, courts at each end.
North and south entrance hall, that to north has concert
hall above, that to south has C20 court room fittings. The
interior is of unrivalled splendour, largely as a result of
Cockerell's decoration, that of the Concert Hall being
particularly fine. 6 Iron lamp standards under colonnade
and 2 under portico; cast iron with 3 dolphins twined round
base.
One of the great buildings of its era in Europe. For a
description, see B.o.E. South Lancashire, and for
appreciation J. Mordaunt Crook,The Greek Revival and David
Watkin The Life and Work of C.R.Cockerell, 1974.

Listing NGR: SJ3493190656

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Liverpool / Chinatown (show map)

Taken on: October 21, 2013

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