OLD WOODEN CHURCH

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 7

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 existiS in the first place ill the absolute correctness of the decorated Gothic style of architecture applied to the interior. Impeccable taste ha<s been shown in the design of the great arched rafters, which arc 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 wive the old building a new and mote 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 Hawke’s Bay earthquake called a halt.