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Sir Frederick Gibberd was born in Coventry in 1908 and died in Harlow in 1984. He studied architecture at Birmingham School of Art.
Sir Frederick Gibberd is the only architect to have designed a cathedral, a mosque, a non-conformist chapel and a monastery. Amongst his other architectural works are Heathrow Airport, the Hyde Park Corner Inter-Continental Hotel, and Coutts Bank. As a town planner his most important work was Harlow. His landscape designs include Didcot Power Station, Kielder reservoir and Dinorwic Pumped Storage Scheme. In 1978 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
In 1960 his competition winning design for the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool was realised, creating two crowns for that urban skyline – the Anglican Cathedral is at the other end of Hope Street. His design skills extended beyond the architectural solution to include such features as the font.
Gibberd received his knighthood in 1967.
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