File:St George's Hall - Liverpool (10463529026).jpg

A close up look at St George's Hall in Liverpool. We were heading for Walker Art Gallery.

Looks impressive. Reminds me of the Town Hall in Birmingham, except it's bigger!

St George's Hall is a Grade I listed building.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-359391-st-george-s-hall-" rel="noreferrer nofollow">St George's Hall, Liverpool</a>

   SJ 3490 NE ST. GEORGE'S PLATEAU
   L1

   49/1037 St. George's Hall
   28.6.52

   G.V. I

   Public hall and law courts. 1841-56, designed by H. L.
   Elmes engineer Sir Robert Rawlinson, completed by C. R.
   Cockerell. The form approximates to a Classical temple of
   the Corinthian order, raised on a platform and approached by
   flights of steps, but the ensemble is planned as a series of
   aligned compartments, clothed with four different porticos,
   the blind hamper of the central hall rising over the
   continuous entablature. East facade has projecting central
   Corinthian colonnade of 16 fluted columns flanked by 6-bay
   loggias with unfluted Corinthian antae, the lower parts of
   which are filled with relief scenes of allegorical figures
   with Greek key band over. End bays flanked by angle
   pilasters, with fielded panels. Central entrance in
   architrave with frieze and consoled cornice, side entrances
   have architraves. Two 4-light mullioned windows.
   Entablature and parapet. Central hamper has rusticated
   quoins and entablature. North facade has 9-bay semi-
   circular projection with attached colonnade on basement with
   3 entrances in architraves, cornices break through top of
   basement. Entrances flanked by mermaids and tritons
   carrying cornucopia-lamps. Windows have battered
   architraves and casements. Flanking bays as above. West
   facade. 3 storeys, with basement to 15-bay projecting
   centre. Round windows to basement, others sashed, most with
   glazing bars. Colonnade of unfluted antae has windows with
   battered shouldered architraves between lower parts. Upper
   loggia with blind end bays, open to the sky, large
   architraved windows behind with casements. 7 bays to each
   side with 3 storeys of sashed windows in architraves, those
   to 2nd floor with consoled cornices and panelled sill
   course. End bays as above. South facade has octastyle
   pedimented portico with 2 rows of columns, behind which is a
   large entrance in architrave with consoled cornice, flanked
   by triton lamps. End bays as above. The sculptures on the
   pediment have been removed. Interior has central hall
   flanked by balconies over corridors, courts at each end.
   North and south entrance hall, that to north has concert
   hall above, that to south has C20 court room fittings. The
   interior is of unrivalled splendour, largely as a result of
   Cockerell's decoration, that of the Concert Hall being
   particularly fine. 6 Iron lamp standards under colonnade
   and 2 under portico; cast iron with 3 dolphins twined round
   base.
   One of the great buildings of its era in Europe. For a
   description, see B.o.E. South Lancashire, and for
   appreciation J. Mordaunt Crook,The Greek Revival and David
   Watkin The Life and Work of C.R.Cockerell, 1974.

   Listing NGR: SJ3493190656

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