Thirty-seven years ago sportive King Edward VII, adopting the most piousdemeanor in his repertoire, journeyed to sooty Liverpool and laid thecornerstone of the Church of England’s vastest fabric. Designed bygreat Roman Catholic Gothicist Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, LiverpoolCathedral has been under construction ever since. It is 619 feet long,with a tower which will rise 308 feet; when completed, it will besecond in size only to St. Peter’s huge basilica in Rome. Nazi bombshave shattered some of its stained glass and scarred its walls, buthave left mainly intact this massive red sandstone peak to St. James’sMount above the River Mersey.
What with war and a shortage of funds, the only workmen left buildingthe greatest Protestant cathedral in Christendom last week were IrishCatholic Bricklayer Arthur Donald Brady, 19, and aged Mortar MixerPaddy Riley.