CATHEDRAL ADDITIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23143, 15 September 1938, Page 10

CATHEDRAL ADDITIONS

MEMORIAL TO ARCHBISHOP £25,000 CHRISTCHURCH PLAN [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT?] /: CHRISTCHURCH, "Wednesday Substantial additions Christfehurch Cathedral, roughly estimated to cost £25,000, have been suggested by thd Bishop of Christchurch, Bishop ,West-Watson, as a memorial to Archbishop Julius. It is proposed that the raising of funds for the memorial should be a civic project, and to this end the Mayor of Christchurch, Mr. It. M. Macfarlane, /jvill call a meeting of citizens next week.

, Bishop West-Watson made it clear that the project was yet only a suggestion and had not received official endorsement. However, it is considered almost certain that the plan will be adopted. The scheme involves the extension of the chancel, a work which the archbishop himsolf had always hoped to see undertaken, and in which he'was interested until a few weekg before his death. The question might be asked whether the cathedral was not big enough for its ordinary Sunday congregation, but" that was not the point, Bishop .West-Watson said. The cathedral was a building which should be capable of holding great congregations on occasions of special religious, national, or civic importance. The rearrangement proposed would allow for the provision of 300 additional seats.