Liverpool Cathedral.
"The parish church of St Peter, which serves as the
pro-cathedral of the diocese of Liverpool, is a respectable structure of Queen Anne's days, though inferior
to the similarly planned London churches of St
Andrew, Holborn, St Clement, Danes, and St James',
Piccadilly. The ecclesiological taste of the people
of Liverpool seems of old to have been subject to
strange vagaries, for, when in 1704 the parishioners
were building the church, they sent to four London
architects for designs for a side door case. Each,
as might be supposed, sent a different one, and the
worthy folks, unable to give a preference, inserted
all the doors in addition to the one at the west end."
Extract from "The Cathedrals of England and Wales" (Open Library)
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