Services

Sunday	Choral Eucharist 10.30; Choral Evensong 15.00
Mon - Fri	Choral Evensong 17.30 (said Wed)
Saturday	Choral Evensong 15.00

Service Sheet www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/content/Worship/ServiceTimes.aspx

Facilities

Entrance: No charge, voluntary donation invited

Disabled: Disabled lift and ramp access from parking to main cathedral

Photography: Still photography permit £1.00; video £3.00

Guided tours: Visitor centre; group tours by arrangement; tower and Great Space experience

Refectory: Refectory and Mezzanine café bar open Mon - Sat 09.00 - 16.30; Sun 11.30 - 16.00

Shop: Open Mon to Sat 09.00 - 17.00; Sun 11.30 - 16.30 tel: 0151 702 7255

Toilet facilities: Adjacent to shop, at North East end and in Western rooms

Website: www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: info@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk

Telephone
0151 709 6271

Music

Master of the Music
David Poulter (since 2007)

Professor Dr Ian Tracey - Organist Titulaire

Choir

Founded in 1920 for consecration of the Lady Chapel and today consists of 12 Lay Clerks and 24 Choristers who are drawn from schools around Merseyside. In 2004, to mark the centenary of the Cathedral a girls' choir was recruited to complement the existing choir.

Organ

Main cathedral organ built by Henry Willis in 1926 it is the largest church organ in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in the world. There are two five manual consoles, one in a gallery under the North case and a mobile recital console. Rebuilds Harrison & Harrison 1977, David Wells 1989 & 1997.

5 manuals 146 stops

Pedal 35 stops, Positif 7 stops, Choir 16 stops, Great 29 stops, Swell 31 stops, Solo 22 stops, Bombarde 5 stops, Corona 1 stop

Lady Chapel organ built by Henry Willis in 1910, overhauled Hill, Norman & Beard 1974, David Wells 1994

2 manuals 29 stops

Pedal 12 stops, Great 9 stops, Swell 8 stops

http://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/content/MusicAndEvents/TheOrgan.aspx

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=E00301

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd. Pete Wilcox (since 2012)

Bishop
The Right Reverend James Jones (since 1998)

Building

Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built on St James' Mount, construction started in 1904, the Lady Chapel was consecrated in 1920 and the Sanctuary & Eastern transepts in 1924. It was finally completed in 1978. It is the largest cathedral in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in the world with the world's highest and heaviest peal of bells.