A view of the Metropolitan Cathedral from along Hope Street with the Anglican Cathedral behind the camera position (Here is a closer view, and look here for a view from Brownlow Hill).

Both cathedrals stand on high ground overlooking Liverpool.

Hope Street links the two cathedral sites.

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, to give its full name, or the Catholic Cathedral is built on the site of a 19th century workhouse and the crypt of an earlier cathedral laid out in 1933. Work had to stop on this cathedral in 1940 due to World War II. In 1959 a competition to design the new cathedral, incorporating the crypt was held and won by Sir Frederick Gibberd. It took four and a half years to build, and cost £1.9 million. It was consecrated and opened in 1967. The cathedral can hold a congregation of 2,200, and is dominated by a large concrete cone and a chimney of stained glass and concrete, capped with a 50 feet high fibre glass crown.

The design is such that it is said that, "You can loathe it, or you can love it - but you can't ignore it"