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On the hill behind Lime Street, off Mount Pleasant, rises the funnel-shaped Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King (Mon-Sat 8am-6pm, Sun 8am-5pm; free), denigratingly known as "Paddy's Wigwam" and the "Mersey Funnel". Built in the 1960s in the wake of the revitalizing Second Vatican Council, it was raised on top of the tentative beginnings of Sir Edwin Lutyens's grandiose project to outdo St Peter's in Rome. Bits of Lutyens's cathedral can be seen in the crypt. At the other end of the aptly named Hope Street, the Anglican Liverpool Cathedral (daily 8am-6pm; donation requested) looks much more ancient but was actually completed eleven years later, in 1978, after 74 years in construction. The last of the great Neo-Gothic structures, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's masterwork claims a smattering of superlatives: Britain's largest and the world's fifth largest cathedral, the world's tallest Gothic arches and the highest and heaviest bells. On a clear day, a trip up the 330ft tower (11am-4pm; GBP2) through the cavernous belfry is rewarded by views to the Welsh hills.
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