The Quadrangle (off Ashton Street), Liverpool University
Picture donated by Dave Wood
| Opened six
years after the Victoria building, Waterhouse had toned down his high
gothic for a slightly more workmanlike building. However it is decorated
with this sculptural panel by C. J. Allen, who had been an apprentice to
Brindley & Farmer but by this time was teaching sculpture at the
university. The two figures are classicised representations of
physiology and pathology, which were to be taught in the new building
and are said to be modelled on two professor's wives. As a teacher,
Allen was involved in the now famous ‘Art Sheds’, teaching alongside
figures such as Robert Anning Bell, Herbert McNair, and for a brief
period Augustus John.
Sources: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Liverpool by Joseph Sharples & http://www.liv.ac.uk/artgall/ Alan Maycock © 2007 |