Skip to content
Lensmark

Your AI tour guide for Liverpool Cathedral

Photograph a permitted work in Liverpool Cathedral and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

Your tour guide, today

Week Pass $5.99 USD Seven days, 50 identifications. One payment, and it does not renew. A Lensmark account is required to complete checkout. Lensmark's Week Pass is separate from Liverpool Cathedral admission and museum services. Download on the App Store

Liverpool Cathedral

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Lensmark is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Liverpool Cathedral.

Privacy

Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Liverpool Cathedral walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

The illustrative demo uses Lensmark's rights-cleared detail of The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo and its standard landmark collection images. These are not Liverpool Cathedral works, and no photograph of the cathedral's collection is reproduced here.

What the Liverpool Cathedral collection covers

Liverpool Cathedral is a working Anglican cathedral whose art includes sculpture, paintings, stained glass and embroidery. Its collection brings historical and contemporary works into a place of worship. Art in the Cathedral

Elisabeth Frink's sculpture, Tracey Emin's neon installation and Adrian Wiszniewski's painting offer different approaches to religious art. The cathedral also holds the ecclesiastical embroidery collection formerly owned by Elizabeth Hoare.

Its collection strengths include modern and contemporary religious art, stained glass, and ecclesiastical embroidery.

  • The Welcoming Christ

    Elisabeth Frink

    Frink's sculpture welcomes visitors at the cathedral entrance. It was unveiled on Easter Day 1993, a few days before the artist died.

  • For You

    Tracey Emin

    Emin's neon installation invites reflection on sharing love. The cathedral commissioned it for Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008.

  • The Good Samaritan

    Adrian Wiszniewski

    Wiszniewski's painting was commissioned in 1995. It was given to the cathedral in March 1996 with funding from the Jerusalem Trust.

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

Liverpool Cathedral welcomes visitor photographs of its art, but professional filming, photography or media in the cathedral or its grounds requires prior consent from its communications team, and photographs are prohibited during Choral Evensong and the preceding choir rehearsal. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Liverpool Cathedral photography policy

Lensmark needs a connection to answer, so check your signal or any visitor Wi-Fi before you photograph a work.

Lensmark can explain Liverpool Cathedral works. Let us be your AI tour guide today.

Try 3 identifications on us, free!