St George's Hall is a building on St George's Place, opposite Lime Street railway station in the centre of Liverpool, England. Opened in 1854, it is a Neoclassical building which contains concert halls and law courts, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
The foundation stone for this building was laid in 1838 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria. Following a public meeting in 1836, a company was formed to raise subscriptions for a hall to be used for music festivals, meetings, dinners and concerts. A competition to design the hall was announced on 5 March 1839, and the prize was won by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, a London architect aged 25 years. The building features an octastyle portico, intricate reliefs, and a west front with a projecting central part and square columns supporting a large entablature.
The southern front has an octastyle portico (eight columns wide). In 1969, the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world. In 2004, the hall and its surrounding area were recognised as part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site until its revocation of World Heritage status in 2021. Since 2012, the Liverpool Register Office and Coroner's Court have been based in the hall.
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