A competition for new designs for the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, is announced. The premiums will be £5000, £3,000 and £2,000, and the assessors are the Most Reverend J. C. Heenan, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Basil Spence, and David Stokes. The cost of the work will be £1 million. The conditions, which will be ready early in October, may be obtained on application to the Competition Secretary, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Committee, 152, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, 3 (deposit £2 2s. 0d.). The last day for questions is December 15, 1959, and the last day for submitting designs is August 3, 1960, at 4 p.m. The competition is open to British subjects, Commonwealth citizens or citizens of Eire, wherever resident, who are corporate members of the RIBA or the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland, or who are on the statutory register of ARCUK.



Architects' Journal, 24th September, 1959, p. 224