Sir Edwin Lutyens' Cathedral model

Sir Edwin Lutyens was given the role of architect of Liverpool Catholic Cathedral and his design was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1932 . The site of the Cathedral was purchased in 1930 by the diocese and was formerly the site of Brownlow hill workhouse . The Cathedral was to be a massive construction 680 feet long , and 400 feet wide , and the dome 168 feet in diameter and 510 feet high , which would have been bigger than the Anglican Cathedral tower and St Peter's in Rome . The work began in 1933 however only the crypt was completed , the work was abandoned with rising costs and the outbreak of World War Two . The design was never built and the only idea of what it may have become is the  architect's model presently housed in the Museum of Liverpool at the pier head .