OLD WOODEN CHURCH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20894, 9 June 1931, Page 9

OLD WOODEN CHURCH.

SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE. - WELLINGTON'S PRO-CATHEDRAL.

St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral in Wellington reached its sixty-fifth anniversary on Saturday. The old wooden church in Mulgrave Street has long been a landmark and a point of interest in Wellington, North. There is something in the building, suggested by the interior architecture, the dimmed lighting of the beautiful stained glass windows, that, breathes the very essence of devotional reverence. The reason for this is not difficult to elucidate, says the Dominion. It exists in the first place in the absolute correctness of the decorated Gothic style of architecture applied to the interior. Impeccable taste has been shown in the design of the great arched rafters, which are all visible, and the proportion of the Gothic arches, in the nicest relations to the roof-trees, is such that the beholder cannot help being struck with the complete harmony of the scheme. Alterations have been made to the church from time to time, more for the sake of preservation than anything else, as witness the roof of Welsh slates the church was given some four years ago. Early this year there was an intention to give the old building a new and more dignified facade, while preserving the perfect interior intact, and plans had been prepared for a handsome " front " in brick, with two imposing square towers on the street alignment, when the Hawkc's Day earthquake called a halt.