ANGLICANS PLAN CATHEDRAL

Southland Times, Issue 23552, 5 July 1938, Page 6

ANGLICANS PLAN CATHEDRAL

SITE ACQUIRED IN WELLINGTON

(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 4. Plans for a new Anglican Cathedral, the foundation stone of which will be laid in 1940 as part of the Church of England’s contribution to the New Zealand Centennial celebrations, will be laid before the Wellington Diocesan Synod when it meets on July 14. At the close of the synod, on July 19 an appeal for funds for building the cathedral will be launched at a mass meeting at the Town Hall, Wellington, when the speakers will include leaders of Church and State, the Government and the Opposition. The cost of the cathedral is estimated at £230,000. So far the greater part of the first £40,000 has been raised in gifts and bequests, apart from the fund of £46,000, which has been diverted to the purpose. The site, which is on the corner of Molesworth street and Hill street, has been acquired by the church. There remains the formidable task of raising some £200,000 for the completion of the work. The architect responsible for the designs, Mr Cecil Wood, of Christchurch, is at present in Europe studying cathedral architecture. It is understood that he has placed tentative plans before the church authorities which will be laid before the synod at its session in a fortnight’s time, but that, as a result of his trip abroad, some slight alterations to the interior will have to be made.