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Liverpool Library Press S' title='Liverpool Library Press S' />St Georges Hall, Liverpool Wikipedia. Liverpool Pals inspection by Lord Kitchener, 2. March 1. 91. 5St Georges Hall is on Lime Street in the centre of the English city of Liverpool, opposite Lime Street railway station. It is a building in Neoclassical style which contains concert halls and law courts, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. On the east side of the hall, between it and the railway station, is St Georges Plateau and on the west side are St Johns Gardens. Library and Learning Spaces. Liverpool Hopes Library Service provides access to a wide ranging collection of physical and online resources to support learning and. A to Z list of current exhibitions in Liverpool Region. Exhibition Arriva City Buses Liverpool Biennial 2016 Childrens Episode Monuments from the Future. Jurgen Klopp FSG are going to bankroll my Liverpool transfer plans. Is Klopp happy with the backing from FSG Heres how he responded. For the advancement of learning and ennoblement of life since 1881. St Georges Hall is on Lime Street in the centre of the English city of Liverpool, opposite Lime Street railway station. It is a building in Neoclassical style which. Nicknames The Pool, The Pool of Life, The Pool of Talent, The World in One City Motto Deus Nobis Haec Otia Fecit God has granted us this ease Liverpool shown. THE City of Liverpool, located on the river Mersey, on the North West Coastline of England, has long been a destination for Irish migrants. Liverpool Echo, the very latest Liverpool and Merseyside news, sport, whats on, weather and travel. Plus the latest Liverpool FC and Everton FC news. Book location filming and photography at Tates galleries. Please contact the press office for news filming enquiries. The hall is included in the William Brown Street conservation area. In 1. Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo Grecian buildings in the world3 although the building is known for its use of Roman sources as well as Greek ones. In 2. 00. 4, the hall and its surrounding area were recognised as part of Liverpools World Heritage Site. HistoryeditThe site of the hall was formerly occupied by the first Liverpool Infirmary from 1. Triennial music festivals were held in the city but there was no suitable hall to accommodate them. Following a public meeting in 1. Liverpool to be used for the festivals, and for meetings, dinners and concerts. Shares were made available at 2. January 1. 83. 7 2. In 1. 83. 8 the foundation stone was laid to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria. A competition in 1. Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, a London architect aged 2. There was a need for assize courts in the city and a competition to design these was also won by Elmes. The original plan was to have separate buildings but in 1. Elmes suggested that both functions could be combined in one building on a scale which would surpass most of the other public buildings in the country at the time. Construction started in 1. Elmes died in 1. 84. John Weightman, Corporation Surveyor, and Robert Rawlinson, structural engineer, until in 1. Sir Charles Cockerell was appointed architect. Information about the Council and the district, places of interest, events, library, address and contact numbers. Cockerell was largely responsible for the decoration of the interiors. During the 2. April 2. Prince Charles. 9StructureeditThe Concert Hall is the largest area, rectangular in shape, and occupies the centre of the building with an organ on its north wall. To the north of the Concert Hall is the Civil Court and beyond this is the elliptical Small Concert Room. To the south of the Concert Hall are the Crown Court and the Grand Jury Room. Smaller court rooms are on the periphery of the larger courts. The floor below consists of a cavernous basement with cells for prisoners along the west wall. East front of St Georges Hall. ExterioreditThe main entrance is in the centre of the east faade and is approached by a wide flight of steps. On the steps is a statue of Benjamin Disraeli by Charles Bell Birch. At the south east corner is a bronze statue of Major General William Earle by the same sculptor. This front has a central portico of 1. Corinthian columns flanked on each side by series of square, unfluted columns, between which are reliefs that were added between 1. Thomas Stirling Lee, C. J. Allen and Conrad Dressler. The west front has a projecting central part with square columns supporting a large entablature. The south front has a portico of eight columns, two columns deep, on steps above a rusticatedpodium. The north front has a semicircular apse with columns and three doorways which are flanked by statues of nereids and tritons bearing lamps which were designed by Nicholl. The tympanum1. 3 which once adorned the southern pediment was removed for safetys sake in 1. Interioredit. Senatus Populusque Liverpoliensis. The main entrance crosses a corridor and leads into the Concert Hall. This measures 1. 69 feet 5. The roof is a tunnel vault carried on columns of polished red granite. The walls have niches for statues and the panelled plasterwork of the vault has allegorical figures of Virtues, Science and Arts. The highly decorated floor consists of Minton tiles and it is usually covered by a removable floor to protect it. It contains over 3. The doors are bronze and have openwork panels which incorporate the letters SPQL the Senate and the People of Liverpool making an association with the SPQR badge of ancient Rome. The organ is at the north end and at the south end is a round arch supporting an entablature between whose columns is a gate leading directly into the Crown Court. The niches contain the statues of William Roscoe by Chantrey, Sir William Brown by Patrick Mac. Dowell, Robert Peel by Matthew Noble, George Stephenson by John Gibson, Hugh Boyd MNeile by George Gamon Adams, Edward Whitley by A. Bruce Joy, S.  R. Graves by G.  G.  Fontana, Rev Jonathan Brookes by B. E. Spence, William Ewart Gladstone by John Adams Acton, the 1. Earl of Derby by William Theed the Younger, the 1. Earl of Derby by F. W.  Pomeroy, and Joseph Mayer by Fontana. In 2. 01. 2 a statue of Kitty Wilkinson by Simon Smith was unveiled, the first in 1. All Blacks Strength Training Program. The stained glass in the semicircular windows at each end of the hall was added in 1. Forrest and Son of Liverpool. Sharples and Pollard regard this as one of the greatest Victorian interiors. South side of St Georges Hall. The Crown Court has a tunnel vault on red granite columns and the Civil Court a coved ceiling on grey granite columns. The south entrance is approached through the portico, is low and has Ionic columns. Below this is a larger vaulted space which was adapted to form a new entrance in 2. The north entrance hall has Doric columns on its landing and a Doric ambulatory around the apse. A copy of part of the Parthenon frieze runs round its walls. In the entrance is a statue of Henry Booth by Theed the Younger. The Small Concert Room is almost circular and is lavishly decorated. In the past it was known as the Golden Concert Room and it was regularly host to Charles Dickens, who held many of his readings there. A balcony supported by caryatids runs round the room. At the back of the platform are attached columns, decorated with arabesques, supporting a frieze with griffins and between the columns are mirrors. The concert room was refurbished between 2. This included making alterations to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act, restoring the historical painting scheme and restoring the chandelier, which consists of 2,8. It has seating for an audience of 4. In the basement is part of a unique heating and ventilation system devised by Dr Boswell Reid. This was the first attempt at providing air conditioning in a public building in the United Kingdom, its aim being to warm and ventilate the building without draughts. Air was warmed by five hot water pipes which were heated by two coke fired boilers and two steam boilers. The air was circulated by four fans 1. It was controlled by a large number of workers opening and closing a series of canvas flaps. In 2. 00. 5 the Heritage Group of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers awarded its first Blue Plaque to St Georges Hall recognising it as the Worlds First Air Conditioned Building. AssizeseditUntil 1. Liverpool Assizes later the Crown Court were held in the courtroom at the southern end of St Georges Hall. Notable cases heard include those of Florence Maybrick in 1. William Herbert Wallace in 1. The court now often doubles for the Old Bailey in film and TV dramas. Organ and organistseditThe organ was built by Henry Willis and completed in 1. GG to a and pedals 3. It comprised a total of 1.