Entrance To Mersey Tunnel

The entrance to the Mersey Tunnel, located in King's Square, Birkenhead, was constructed between 1925 and 1934. It was engineered by Sir Basil Mott and J.A. Brodie, with Herbert J. Rowse serving as the architect. The entrance is faced in white Portland stone and features an Egyptian style. It includes two flanking lodge towers, with walls that slope down towards the tunnel portals. The lodge towers have round-headed arched entrances flanked by fluted engaged shafts, and there are wing motifs in low relief above them. A scalloped frieze and a high blocking course sit above the towers. The flanking walls connect to the retaining walls of the tunnel entrance, which are adorned with a chevron frieze. There is a wing motif above the portals. The original height of the westernmost lodge tower was reduced during alterations, which also included the addition of a building against the flanking wall and the partial glazing of the formerly open ground floor of the towers.