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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 11. 1965.

Cathedral Comment

Cathedral Comment

Rev. Peter Stuart, the Anglican Chaplain at Victoria, comments as follows:

"It is all too easy to use the proposed new design to complete the Wellington Cathedral as an opportunity to question whether any cathedral should be built. However, the Anglican Church has no real choice; it is committed by the action of past generations, and by the existence of half a building, to work for its completion. And even if pur hands were completely free, I believe we ought to build a cathedral, sooner or later, as the home church of the whole diocese.

"The real questions are, what should be its design, and when should it be completed. The old design has few friends; the new design is an improvement on the old. If the new interior can harmonise with the existing interior, and I have my doubts, then the basic ground plan, functionally speaking, is one acceptable solution. The glass end fronting Parliament Square would date very quickly, and the size of the completed building is open to serious question."