1934 – North John Street Ventilation Station, Liverpool
Architect’s sketch proposal for ventilation station on Mersey tunnel. Grade II Listed building.
Architect’s sketch proposal for ventilation station on Mersey tunnel. Grade II Listed building.
One of six such installations serving the Queensway Mersey Tunnel, the Woodside Ventilation Station stands 150 foot tall.
Lutyens’ unrealised vision for a re-arranged Liverpool centred around his uncompleted cathedral. The cathedral would have been a massive classical/Byzantine structure in brick and granite that would have become the second-largest church in the world.
In 1930 Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then emerging at the other end of Hope Street.