Picture taken on Saturday 10th September 2005, donated by Jonathan P. Neill
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This building was designed by Henry Summers and completed
in 1880. It was the studio and offices of Norbury, Upton
& Paterson, architectural carvers. The statue is assumed
to be St. Luke by the carvers themselves. The griffin
(also sp. gryphon) combines the lion and the eagle,
the most powerful beasts on land and in air and is used
to denote divine power. The combination of bull and eagle
is more obscure.
Sources: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Liverpool by Joseph Sharples, The Oxford English Reference Dictionary & Wikipedia Alan Maycock © 2007 |
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