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THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER 30, 1987

WORLD'S LARGEST CATHEDRAL MAY TAKE A CENTURY TO COMPLETE

Almost within hailing distance The main task will follow-

the unfinished Anglican building the enormous body of the Cathedral, and on

the

same ridge cathedral and the huge dome, overlooking the city, second 168ft in diameter.

great Liverpool edifice, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King, is beginning to take shape. Costing £3,000,000, it will be the largest cathedral in the world, surpassing even St. Peter's, Rome: The Anglican Cathedral begun in 1904, may be finished in th 1950's. The Roman Catholic

Cathedral, begun in 1933, may take a century to complete.

It

Police In

Irish Sweep

Charges

world-

An attempt to secure wide distribution of Irish sweep will cover five acres more than stake tickets from Liverpool was al twice the area of its neighbour which is the largest

leged at Liverpool when charges Anglic against 18 men, including three

policernen, were heard.

cathedral in the country.

The styles of the buildings are Mr. Basil Nield, prosecuting, completely different. Sir Giles alleged that the men combined to- Scott's great work is modern gether to import into Liverpool Gothic! Sir Edwin Lutyens, archi tect of the Roman Catho cathedral, describes its style as "Wrenaissance

from Dublin Irish sweep tickets and to distribute them not only in the United Kingdom, but all over the world.

The first is in red sandstone, Among them were men employed the second în brick. The Anglican in the Irish steamers sailing be cathedral is the work of a Roman tween Liverpool and Dublin, men Catholic! the Roman Catholic employed at Prince's Dock, Liver cathedral the design of a. Pro- pool, three police-constables testant

duty at Prince's Dock gates,

clearing houses.

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The east portion of the Anglican motor driver, and men who stored cathedral, with choir and tranthe tickets in places described septs, is complete, and work is now proceeding on the tower, and great space beneath. To complete this £52,000 is still required to wards the total cost £350,000 for the central section.

DOCK GATE POLICE Mr. Nield went on to allege that three policemen on duty at the dock gates allowed suitcases full of trickets to pass from a steamer Cal. V. E. Cotton, of the Cathe to a waiting motor-car without dral Committee, said "We shall challenge or question. The tickets then begin work on the final por-were then driven to addresses in

If Liverpool and Nottingham. tion. the nave and narthex. funds are available, it should Mr. Nield said that when police- Little then be possible to complete the men visited a garage in cathedral in about a further 10 Catharine street, kept by one of years Much more than £1.000,-the accused named Jackson, ther Eight were 000 has been spent so far, and the found 31 suitcases. total cost may be £2,000,000. At empty and 12 contained Irish sweep tickets to the number of 30,- present 220 men are employed."

780 books: The face value of 2.000.000 BRICKS Of the Roman Catholic cathe these was £184,680, and there were is also 19,000 stamped and addressed dral at Brownlow Hill there

to various less to see, since the work is still envelopes addressed below ground. Thousands of tons parts of the United Kingdom, a of stone have been hewn out, great many to the United States ✅ and in their place the crypt walls and Canada, and some to the East.

are rising towards the floor levelThere were, he added,

possibly

When the police went to a house

of the cathedral More than 2,200,000 receipts.* 000.000. bricks, set in cement, and many tons of Cornish granite have been laid.

at Nottingham on Aug. 21, he con- tinued, they found 1,320 books of Back to back across the width tickets and a receipt book giving a of the building are two srypt statement of expenses incurred in chapels, in one of which, the the alleged distribution of tickets. Chapel of the Seven Dolours, the The Magistrate, Mr. J.P. Rudolf. Archbishop, Dr. Downey, will These people do not do what is al- sing the first Mass on Oct. 31- leged against them for nothing.

What do they make out of it? •

Hewn out of the rock, from the crypt corridor, opens the Relics know they get two tickets out of Chapel, the rolling gate at entrance to which will be deliver

It is

the the 12 in each book. Do they get

any other remuneration?

elaborately carved disc

Mr. Neild: That, amic cannot be pro

of travertino a porous marble

ately

The hearing was adjourned am

and weighs three tons. It will the suspension from duty of the be rolled like a wheel away from three-police officers was renewed. the opening to the chapel into

An ingenious mechanism of counter-weights has been devis

to operate it at a touch

All the accused were allowed bail.

The charges against all the mer were that between Jan. 1, 1936, and Aug. 22, 1937, they conspired to

years more will b needed gether and

and ther unla wn to dist

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