Liverpool. Britain's Great Cathedral

[@gordonpatterson4031]

Love the architecture of this magnificent Building. BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE...but the Architect and his wive are buried outside...says it all.😢

[@noteverton]

On the now rare occasions that I get to go home, I always visit the Anglican. It really is fantastic.

[@jerrybootneck1736]

I was born in Wavertree but left in the late 60's as a young boy. My late wife always wanted to visit the Cathedral and I mentioned this on the Cathedrals Facebook page as I wanted to surprise my wife with a visit of a life time for our 40th wedding anniversary, the Cathedral in boxed me on Facebook and asked if I would like my wedding anniversary blessed in the Cathedral, I Jumped at this opportunity but I never told my wife until after the evening service and we were called into a side room and had our wedding blessed, the look on my wife's face was totally unforgettable, so thank you to those involved at Liverpool Cathedral.

[@andybb]

So for your loss really nice memories for you to have

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I was born in *FAZAKERLEY HOSPITAL* but got bought up in KIRKBY & TOXTETH but left LIVERPOOL when i was 17 yo in the 1980's because I'm just being honest the place was an absolute dump with zero employment opportunities so thrre was no otherchoicebut to leave.And i went off to LONDON and made my wealth znd retired when i was 43 yo and now live in a *500+ year old *THATCHED COTTAGE* in *THE COTSWOLDS* when i first purchased the building over the Internet and only seen a couple of pictures of it i didnt go and view it.And it was an old dilapidated FARM BUILDING what we had to restore which was bloody expensive especially the hoops we had to jump through go please the commitee with the BUILDING being a GRADE 2 LISTED but never ever do it again though.But saying that if we sold it today we'd make a humongous profit but I'm never going to sell it and I've had some mind boggling offers from foreigners but hopefully this will be the family home for many decades to come even when I'm gone..

[@irenedavo3768]

Wow!

[@irenedavo3768]

I remember seeing Queen on day Cathedral was opened!

[@blackeyedlily]

That was lovely!

[@simonthreespiresparanormal1892]

Such a beautiful place, absolutely massive.

[@johncodling9805]

I was born in Liverpool in 1946 about half a mile from this cathedral site in the diocese of The Sacred Heart. Coming from an Irish catholic family my religion was a major part of my early upbringing, I was expected to become an altar boy, and my grandmother, mother and aunt worked in the convent or the Sisters Of Mercy so I got more of an ear bashing about Catholasisim than most, maybe that has something to do with my atheism now. I could never get my head around being told I was never to set foot in the cathedral and I never did. Working outside the UK most of my working life, I was home on leave back in the 1990s and was boosing in town when I came upon the cathedral and decided to go inside and see it. This day blew me away I now go every time I am in Liverpool, for me It is the most beautiful building in the country, I stand in awe of the magnificence of this edifice but look at it more from a superb piece of engineering rather than a church although I treat it with all the reverence it is due.

[@andybb]

Very true John so proud of both are Cathedrals

[@peterwhitaker4038]

as a Catholic myself and a church goer to Saint Francis Xavier in Everton, i have no problem going into any church. i just admire the buildings and architecture as well as honouring God. i can sit in a church or Cathedral for ages and the two Cathedrals in Liverpool are Beautiful. I love also the York minster and the Cathedral at Lichfield with three spires which is unique. Westminster R,C, in London is brilliant as is St.Pauls. so i feel free to go into any church but pray to My God as i can do anywhere i wish.

[@wmr9019]

I was born in woolton were the sandstone was quarried, in 2015 i met a lady from wirral who's great grandfather was a stone mason and laid the first stone when it was built ❤

[@stephaniekent8483]

great video thank you, I left in 78 for NZ went back in 96 and sang a solo, amazing grace in the lady chapel, then we went on a tour of the roof roof, a tiny lift took us up the bell tower wow... what an amazing Cathedral!

[@andybb]

Its is

[@Shaz-YNWA]

I love this church it’s so stunning

[@peterwhitaker4038]

i hope more watch this amazing video, sadly people are brainwashed into thinking all is in London like St.Paul's and Westminster Abbey. this is the largest Cathedral in United Kingdom if not Europe itself and is one of the biggest in the world.

[@andybb]

Very true

[@neiljosephbennett9119]

By gross volume in square metres, Liverpool Cathedral is the eighth largest in the world. Milan has the largest in Europe after St Peter's in Rome. The world's biggest cathedral is in Brazil.

[@johncodling9805]

@@neiljosephbennett9119 St Peter"s in Rome is not a cathedral, It's a Basilica apparently there's a difference

[@rabbitkumardua1038]

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I think the bit on the slave trade was overdone: clearly Liverpool was one of the two key British ports (alongside Bristol) for the trade in the 18th century. However it’s a bit of a stretch to state a building built in the 1930’s was significantly funded by the profits of the slave trade abolished a century earlier - Liverpool was one of the worlds greatest ports long after the slave trade, it was perfectly likely to be a wealthy Liverpool merchant who’s great grandfather had been involved in the slave trade, who’s wealth was predominantly if not entirely from mid/late19th / early 20th century trade rather than inheritance from the napoleonic era slave ships.

To clarify: I’m not denying or belittling the city’s role or profiting from the slave trade - lots of buildings and streets are built off the those profits. I just think it’s being brought up in the context of an unrelated 1930’s building for the sake of adding unnecessary controversy/drama.

[@paulrimmer391]

It's estimated 3% of the historic wealth came from the slave trade. So 97% came from elsewhere!

[@scottmcginn2169]

it's hard. As pointed out, there are families who's wealth comes from trade. And unfortunately, a lot of Liverpool merchants were tied up in the slave trade. That said, the people who donated were 2-3 generations removed from the UK ending it's involvement in the African slave trade, and the money they were making was coming from general trade. No doubt the wealth partly came from there, and I think it is worth acknowledging.

[@thedevilsreject23]

Largest organ in the uk - it’s a pleasure to play - you can’t describe the sound and echo - gives you goosebumps- prof tracey is one lucky guy 👏🏻🥃🍻

[@andybb]

Do you know Dave Nicholas Resident Cinema Organist at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

[@yeety1208]

mind you the trompette millitaire takes some time getting used to because of how far away it is

[@angelabamber7451]

Love this cathedral my happy space

[@bernadettecrawford3656]

Loved going there.

[@martinanderson4721]

Didn't watch the whole video - but was Bishop Chavasse mentioned ? His son Captain Noel Chavasse VC and Bar. His Brother Bishop of Rochester.

[@Celtopia]

My great uncles best work,....

[@BaronFlyingClub]

Liverpool cathedral tower was base jumped in august 1991.

Not wishing to cause controversy, but I’m not a fan of the video calling it “Liverpool Cathederal” and ignoring the Metropolitan Cathedral on the same street. Locally it is often called “The Anglican Cathedral” to differentiate. I think the piece is also neglecting to mention the catholic cathedral under construction was planned to be massive, beating multiple world records, and the chosen design of the Anglican cathederal was heavily motivated by a desire to match or exceed the Sir Edwin Lutyens metropolitan cathedral.

Not wishing to be sectarian, I just feel, as a Liverpudlian, it’s not accurate to consider it, as the video says as the cathedral of “the people of Liverpool” (I wouldn’t consider it as “my cathedral” or “the cathedral” and we would never have a city-wide civic event there) it belongs to one of the two communities that share the city, and gather on either end of hope street.

Incidentally the metropolitan cathedral was designed by an Anglican and the Anglican Cathedral was designed by a catholic.

[@RossTaylorific]

Saying that the earnings of Slavery funded the Cathedral is so dishonest. Slavery was abolished hundreds of years prior and the people who gave the money had no connection to the normal (normal then) practice that WE (GB) abolished.

[@neiljosephbennett9119]

41:52 - "EARWORMS", Prof Tracey! Not "EARWIGS"! 😁😁😁

[@AshleyMonck]

Durham Cathedral’s bells at the beginning

[@johnc4780]

If you are talking about the shot of the bells ringing, that's not Durham it's Liverpool, The Bartlet Bells.

[@AshleyMonck]

@@johnc4780no, the bells you can hear at the beginning of the video

[@johnburns4017]

By the time Liverpool cathedral was born slavery had been abolished about 100 years. To say the cathedral was built on slavery is nonsense.

[@AnthonyHulse-wp2ct]

Is this the first Cathedral the Anglicans actually built, rather than stealing them from the Roman Catholic Church?

[@EdwardBattingOrganist]

No, Truro, Coventry, St.Paul's, Birmingham, Guildford, and others that were started pre-reformation but finished afterwards.

[@johnburns4017]

@@EdwardBattingOrganist Still with Catholic roots.

[@jamesstewart7224]

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