The Government has awarded The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool Grade I listed status following advice from Historic England.
The cathedral, previously Grade II* listed, is now nationally recognised as a building of the highest architectural and historical interest.
Built between 1962 and 1967, the cathedral represents the greatest Roman Catholic post-war architectural commission in Britain.
It was built over an earlier Sir Edwin Lutyens-designed crypt, intended to be part of a grand classical-style Catholic cathedral in Liverpool that began in the 1930s, but construction was halted, largely due to financial constraints and the outbreak of the Second World War.
