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St. George's Hall


St. George's Hall
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Copyright: Nigel Smith (Nigel_Smith) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 106 W: 37 N: 176] (773)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-04-02
Categories: Architecture
Exposure: f/4, 1/500 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-08 9:39
Viewed: 642
Points: 4
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St George’s Hall, Liverpool, West elevation, viewed from St John’s Gardens.

The St George’s Hall was designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes and completed in 1854. Its East front is the first view of the city to be seen by visitors coming out of Lime Street Railway Station. This is no accident… the building was commissioned shortly after the opening of the new station, with the intention of creating an immediate impression of grandeur at this new gateway to the City.

The exterior is in a free Neo-Grecian style and asymmetrical, having a semicircular apse at the North end and a rectangular portico to the South, which reflect the shapes of the separate spaces within.

Elmes, who was only twenty-five when he produced the designs, never lived to see the building completed, dying in Jamaica in 1847 at the age of thirty-three. Much of the interior was completed by Charles Robert Cockerell and others.

St John’s Gardens, to the rear of the Hall, occupy the site of the former St John’s Churchyard and were opened in 1904. The gardens, which slope away from the Hall toward Old Haymarket, were designed to house much public sculpture. The statue seen prominently in this shot is Frederick William Pomeroy’s 1905 monument to Monsignor James Nugent (1822-1905), described as ‘Apostle of Temperance, Protector of the Orphan Child, Consoler of the Prisoner, Reformer of the Criminal, Saviour of Fallen Womanhood, Friend of All in Poverty and Affliction'.
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Thanks for the info and the view it's like traveling across the world in a minute.


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  • inaam Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1719 W: 5 N: 389] (1376)
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The point of view is smartly chosen while taking this beautiful shot. Elevated statue´s head is raising abve the roof, thus, in blue background is looking fantastic along with another statue is visible in the background. Tree branches in darker tone are looking nice. Well done my friend.

Many thanks for sharing this image.

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