BEAUTY IN ARCHITECTURE.
THE WELLINGTON ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL. Since the beginning of man’s sojourn on this earth, the beautiful in nature has always been a spur to his better instincts and ambitions.. The colours of hind and sett and sky, the beauty of the 'human' form, the tall columns of (he forest trees —he has copied them into pictures and sculpture and architecture. As objects of art many of these works have been treasured for hundreds of years, and history teaches Hmt a people that has neither art nor literature cannot survive; they fall steadily but surely into oblivion, being merged into oilier nations in whom the divine love of the beautiful lias found free expression. In no region of Hie realm of art has mankind achieved greater triumphs than in that of architecture; and nowhere in architecture more than in the building of glorious cathedrals. In earlier days men and women gladly laboured with their bands, at skilled or unskilled work connected with Hie building, while the masters in art and architecture planned and directed. To-day sees different fashions and customs in the world. Yet in the building of a splendid memorial cathedral such us the Anglican Cathedral, which il is proposed to erect in Wellington, where St. Mark’s Church now stands, everybody can help just as effectively as if they made mortar with (heir hands or carried water, or fashioned (he stone. It is by free-will offerings that (bis cathedral is to be built, and there is e, gradation of gifts which may be made, so that everyone nitty give definitely it portion of the cathedral. A lower may bo built for £IO,OOO, and be dedicated cither as a memorial or a thankoffering, for a soldier lost in the war or a soldier safe-re-t timed. And so the list runs down —transept, Galilee porch, baptistry, rose window, and it score of others —down to Hie lesser ornaments of the huge building, which Hie widow’s mile may purchase, and Hie widow’s heart dedicate. To learn more of this splendid scheme il is only necessary to communicate with Hie lion, organising secretary, Rev. C. F. Askew, St. Mark’s Vicarage, Wellington..
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1924, 9 January 1919, Page 3
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359BEAUTY IN ARCHITECTURE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1924, 9 January 1919, Page 3
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