From the archives: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, 1967

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The recently rebranded Building magazine recounts the challenges of building one of the UK’s last great church projects

The construction of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral started in October 1962, the same month in which the Beatles released their first official single, Love Me Do. The cathedral was completed five years later, in the same month the band released its era-defining album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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