Walking the streets of Liverpool?
Time on your hands wondering what to do?
Take a look at the work of William Mitchell!
Sculptor and designer, born in London 1925, where he continued to live. Studied at Southern College of Art in Portsmouth, at Royal College of Art and at British School in Rome; was an Abbey Award-winner. Went on to lecture widely and was a member of the design advisory board, Hammersmith College of Art and Trent Polytechnic. Also did work for Concrete Society and completed a frieze for Swiss Cottage Library.
First stop is 29 Hope street – where we have been before – william-mitchell-liverpool.
Federation House – 1965-66 Gilling Dodd & Partners
Originally home to the National Federation of Building Employees Investments.
Now how in part to The Shandon Bells – named for the chimes of St. Anne’s Church in Cork.
The church is noted for its eight bells, immortalised in the song The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony. The largest weighs a little over one and a half tons and was originally cast by Abel Rudhall of Gloucester.
They first rang on 7 December 1752.
Curiously for an Irish themed pseudo-pub the exterior fascia is modelled on the Design Research Unit’s Watneys identity.
Here are some interiors of the then Coffee Moose from 2022
Next we’re off to liverpool-metropolitan-cathedral-of-christ-the-king.
The cathedral’s architect, Frederick Gibberd, was the winner of a worldwide design competition.
Construction began in 1962 and was completed in 1967.
William Mitchell designed the concrete relief below the bell, two front and two side doors.
Before the fire.
A woman has been charged with arson following a fire at a cathedral.
The blaze damaged doors and the gallery at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on Mount Pleasant in the early hours of 29 May 2022.
A 35-year-old woman was charged with arson and possession of a controlled drug and remanded in custody, Merseyside Police said.
The blaze did not enter the main part of the cathedral but caused smoke damage inside the building.
There were no injuries in the fire.
BBC
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