Whether you are a visitor, a pilgrim searching for God, or needing a place to pray, the door is open and you are welcome. Could your child be a chorister? The Cathedral Choir is recruiting! We are looking for boys and girls currently in Years who enjoy singing. John is always happy to answer any questions prospective boys and their parents may have prior to an audition.
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To protect the Cathedral Columbarium during the Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Project, the Columbarium will be deconstructed, stored safely and re-built at a later date. Families are welcome to visit the Transitional Cathedral, should they wish to visit, to pray, and pay their respects. Transitional Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand. But the money had run out, with some people arguing that the Church had more important things to spend its money on.
At one point the site was almost sold off. Bishop Harper managed to get building started again by promising some of his own salary to help costs. Other leading people in the community supported him and building began again in , with Benjamin Mountfort , architect of the Provincial Council buildings and other Gothic-style buildings in Christchurch, as supervising architect looking after the day-to-day work on the building site.
The original plans for the cathedral had been drawn up by Sir Gilbert Scott. He had wanted to build the cathedral in timber, but changed the plans when a good supply of building stone was found in Canterbury. Mountfort wanted to make some changes of his own, but the Rhodes family, who had put a lot of money towards the project including eight bells and a memorial window, objected, and the original plan was kept.
Mountfort was able to make some later changes to the tower and spire, and added some decorative features to the outside. By the nave and the tower had been completed and consecrated.
The addition of the chancel and the transepts completed the building in A west porch designed by Mountfort had been added in The cathedral was built mainly of Canterbury stone. The timber in the roof came from matai black pine and totara trees on Banks Peninsula, where it was pit-sawn before being carted to Christchurch.
The nave is about feet long, and the circular stone staircase to the tower has steps. In the West Porch is the bench-mark for Christchurch - 6. Read more on the page about ChristChurch Cathedral. In a plot of land in Barbadoes Street was granted to the Roman Catholic church for a place of worship. This wooden building had been designed by Benjamin Mountfort , the Provincial architect, and had opened in It took search and rescue teams more than a week to confirm that — miraculously — no one had been killed inside.
In that time, images of Spigel hanging out of the cathedral, bloody and dazed, had travelled the world. Of all the buildings lost that day, its collapse had the greatest resonance. For Spigel, it had been her first sanctuary in Christchurch.
The sight of it tumbled into rubble, its tower toppled, was immediately understood as symbolic of the wider trauma and loss suffered by Christchurch and its people in the earthquake. Instead, for nearly 10 years, the cathedral has languished — open-faced, piled with rubble, too risky to enter — as new buildings have sprung up around it: an unmistakable reminder of the earthquake, even as Christchurch has sought to move on.
If the symbolism of the collapsed cathedral was clear, the challenge — once the dust settled and the rebuild got under way — lay in how to interpret it. Various options — including reinstating the cathedral exactly as it was, rebuilding it to a new design, and demolishing it and starting over entirely — were explored and often hotly debated. The fight over the cathedral reflected tensions prevailing in the city at the time, such as between local and central government, says Ian Lochhead, an architectural historian and visiting associate professor at the University of Canterbury.
Those losses galvanised some who were fighting to save the cathedral — but not before the bitter debate over it had made others lose faith in its significance entirely. Even Spigel felt like she had to guard against a congregation — and a cause — she had cherished, switching for a time to the progressive Knox Presbyterian church. Spigel had little need, or desire, to go into the city with its new, glass buildings. Eventually — through fluctuating public opinion, a protracted legal action and even attempts at mediation — in September the Anglican Synod voted to reinstate the cathedral.
In August it signed a joint venture agreement with Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Limited CCRL , a government entity set up to deliver the project with a separate fundraising arm.
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