The world’s last Gothic cathedral to be completed will be consecrated in Brisbane on Thursday.
St John’s Anglican Cathedral was designed by English Victorian Gothic architect John Pearson in 1889.
But it was not until 2009 that the third and final stage of its construction was completed – at a cost of almost $40 million.
The medieval-style construction began in 1906, with the first stage completed in 1910.
The second stage ran from 1964-68 and the third and final stage was kicked off in 1989, along with a massive fundraising campaign which attracted federal and Queensland government support.
The article curiously does not include any pictures of the new cathedral. After searching around, I finally found the virtual tour on the Cathedral’s website. It is worth checking out.
http://www.stjohnscathedral.com.au/community/info/virtual_tour.html
Golly, it’s quite a whopper. How fantastic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John's_Cathedral,_Brisbane
Pageantmaster, from your link I got a Wiki page that said “this article has not been started yet” but sadly, no picture.
Brer – that is so wierd – when I clicked on the link in #2 I got the same thing – and yet when I tried the link again from my computer history with the same url I got a long article, pictures and all.
Try putting ‘St John’s Cathedral Brisbane’ into the search box on Wikipedia and up it should load hopefully, complete with picture of the exterior.
Pageantmaster, here is the link, with the apostrophe coded as ‘.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John's_Cathedral,_Brisbane