St. George Concert Hall Schedule

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The west front has a projecting central part with square pillars supporting a massive entablature.

The hall is included in the William Brown Street conservation area. In 1969 Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the worldQuoted in although the building is notable for its use of Roman sources as well as Greek ones.

It was controlled a large number of workers opening and closing a series of canvas flaps.The organ was built by Henry Willis and completed in 1855 with 100 speaking stops across four manual divisions (of non-standard compass, 63 notes GG to a) and pedals (30 notes).

The highly decorated floor consists of Minton tiles and it is usually covered by a removable floor to protect it. It contains over 30,000 tiles. 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.

Between these pillars are reliefs which were added between 1882 and 1901 by Thomas Stirling Lee, C.J.Allen and Conrad Dressler.

Also the manual compass was changed to the now standard CC to c, 61 notes, making the bottom 5 pipes on every manual stop redundant. In 1931 it was reconstructed by Henry Willis III when the number of stops was increased to 120 and electro-pneumatic action introduced for the combination systems and some of the key action.