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Original architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. Construction of the cathedral took 40 years, with construction paused at times due to a lack of funding. The origins of the cathedral date back to the plans of the Canterbury Association, which aimed to build a city around a central cathedral and college in the Canterbury region, based on the English model of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is the planned successor of Christchurch's former Catholic cathedral (of the same name) which was damaged in the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes and later demolished in 2020. This makes the cathedral the future mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch (Dioecesis Christopolitana). [1]
The Great Christchurch Building Trust (GCBT), co-chaired by former MPs Jim Anderton and Philip Burdon, took the Anglican Church to the High Court, to determine whether the decision to demolish ChristChurch Cathedral breached an Act of Parliament that protects church buildings, and whether an insurance payout for ChristChurch Cathedral can be ...
Christchurch has listings in the former two categories. As of July 2011 [update] , there were 315 historic places and seven historic areas listed. In August 2011, Heritage New Zealand started the process of removing listings of buildings demolished after the earthquakes, starting with the Manchester Courts and the NZ Trust and Loan Building ...
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, sometimes referred to as the Christchurch Basilica [1] or the Catholic Cathedral, was a Catholic cathedral on Barbadoes Street in central Christchurch, New Zealand. It was the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch and seat of the Bishop of Christchurch. It was not a basilica, despite ...
St Michael & All Angels served as the pro-cathedral until the completion of ChristChurch Cathedral in 1881. [2] The architect of the current church was William Fitzjohn Crisp. He had come out from England in 1864 as the pupil of Robert Speechly who had been appointed by George Gilbert Scott to supervise the building of Christ Church Cathedral. [3]
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The Diocese had 220 buildings badly damaged or destroyed including the iconic ChristChurch Cathedral which is central to the history of the city and province. Recognising the length of time before a new Cathedral in Cathedral Square would be built, the Transitional Cathedral, also known as the 'Cardboard Cathedral,' was erected. [8]