CATHEDRALS IN SYDNEY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 4

CATHEDRALS IN SYDNEY.

+- — NEW SITE FOR ST. ANDREW'S. (FHOSI OCR OK.V COREESPO.N'DEST.) SYDNEY, December 30. If the Anglican authorities accept the offer which the State Cabinet has now made to them, the spire 3 of St. Andrew's Cathedral will, in the years to come, thrust themselves into the sky in Macquarie street, Sydney's most exclusive thoroughfare, and on the site of what for many long years has been the mint. That the cathedral cannot remain many more years on its present site, alongside the Town Hall, seems fairly certain, forright in front of it and the chief civic hall will be one of the biggest of the city's underground railway stations, for the purposes of which there has already been a sad encroachment on the now limited cathedral ground. On the site of the Mint, if a new and more stately and moro worthy Anglican cathedral is built there', the Anglican community will be cheek by jowl with the Roman Catholic community. _ for St. Mary's Cathedral, daily growing more massive and more impressive, is just round the corner, facing Hyde Park. In the same neighbourhood is historic St. James' Church, whose history

is largely the history of the State in its colonising days. As St. James' is of the Anglican order, there are some who are wondering whether it will still be able to preserve the beauty of its historic associations and its popularity, especially as a centre for smart weddings, if St. Andrew's Cathedral is built only 100 yards or fco away from it. The church, by the way, could not have been more fittingly represented in its negotiations with the Government over the new cathedral site, than by Dean Talbot, who is one of Labour's staunchest champions, and a young, vigorous man with the courage of his convictions. If ever "Dean Talbot abandoned the pulpit for politics, he could easily count upon a safe Labour seat. The church can very largely thank him for one of the most exclusive and attractive sites in Sydney for a cathedral.