STYLE AND DIMENSIONS OF ADDITIONS

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 17, 25 April 1907, Page 12

STYLE AND DIMENSIONS OF ADDITIONS

The additions just erected, and which complete the Cathedral, consist of an addition to the nave of 40ft x 40ft ; a north and south transept, 40ft x 39ft and 40ft x 31ft respectively ; a main sanctuary, 40ft x 16ft ; two side chapels ; main sacris>ty, 20ft x 16ft 6i>n ; and boys' sacristy, 23ft x 9ft. The walls are of brick, faced outwardly with cement to correspond in style with- the old part of the church,- and inwardly with plaster. - In each transept there is" a large, deeply recessed doorway, 7ft wide, set between buttresses, and flaniked by two-.light windows corresoonding to those in the side

walls of the old building. Over the doors runs a moulded string course, and afcjove this is a large nvelieht window, 13ft wide and 21ft high, with tracery in the upper portion. The side walls are subdivided by buttresses, and each bay is occupied by a- window similar to those before mentioned. The sanctuary is surrounded by v a gable containing a. large rose window. All -windows- are of Oamaru stone, with moulded dividing mullions, and are at present glazed with rough plate' glass, but will afterwards be' filled with stained, decorated designs as opportunity offers. The intersection of the nave, and -transept Tool is surmounted, by . a ventilating turret, with louvred openings in each face, and a spire, covered -with" galvanized i on; rising to a height of 25ft above the roof. ' Inwardly the intersection of the nave and transepts is formed into a square by four moulded arches of • Oamaru stone, 40ft span, .and 54ft in height to apex, springing from a group of clustered columns at each corner. The ' columns . are ornamented with moulded .and carved caps and moulded bases. The roof of this portion is supported on diagonal pi^in'cipals of 60ft Span, havintr arched ribs, springing • from bracketed columns at the level of the large arches, filled, in with open tracery above the collar ties, and chamfered openings m the spandrels. The transept roofs are supported en. f-amed principals corresppnding in design to those of the old portion of the building. • The. sanctuary and side chapel are vaulted in wood with moulded ribs springing from carved corbels - subdivided into panels by moulded purlins, and nlted m. with -boarding. In the back wall of the sanctuary are - three recessed archways, divided by clustered columns - and moulded arches, the two side recesses being rilled by two-ii^ht windows, and the centre by a . Calvary group supported on a moulded corbelling. A wooden t dado, 6ft 6in high, runs all round the sanctuary divided into panels by turned ' columns- and carved heads, which at the northern end is raised and formed into a Bishop's throne, with projecting vaulted canopy. The sanctuary rails project 20ft into the nave, making a . total depth of 30 It 6in. The architect .was Mr. Thomas Mahoney; contractors, Messrs. Malcolm and Ferguson ; and- clerk of works, Mr. T. Hussey.