What is the name/history of the building with the gold dome on it in Dale Street Liverpool ?please?
Royal Insurance Building, Dale Street 1897-1903 Grade II* On a strategic site at the corner of Dale Street and North John Street, the Royal Insurance Buildingis one of the finest of Liverpool’s giant early 20th century office blocks. The architect, J. Francis Doyle, was selected by competition, the assessor being Norman Shaw, with whom Doyle had worked on the design of the White Star Building. Its Edwardian Baroque façade of granite and Portland stone conceals a revolutionary steel structure, possibly the earliest use of a steel frame in Britain. To provide a ground floor space unencumbered by columns, the upper floors are hung from great steel arches, braced to the structure above. Above the main entrance is a tower with a sundial and a gilded dome that glints over the city skyline, and the roof is crowded with dormers and massive chimneys. A frieze of sculpted panels by C.J. Allen at second floor level shows characters engaged in the world of insurance. Doyle had assimilated the styl
