HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL
WANGARATTA, NSW ANGLICAN
PAUL SCOTT
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HISTORY
The Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta is mostly located in the northeast region of Victoria, Australia. The diocese includes the cities of Wangaratta, Albury-Wodonga and Shepparton.
Cathedral
The cathedral church of the diocese is Holy Trinity Cathedral, Wangaratta. The land on which the church is built was donated to the parish by William Henry Clark, a pioneer of Wangaratta. The foundation stone was laid in 1908 by Bishop Arthur Green, the Bishop of Ballarat, and was dedicated on 24 August 1909. A second section was built between 1922 and 1924. The building was faced in locally quarried granite to a design by the English architect Walter Butler. The baptistery, designed by the church architect Louis Williams, was completed in 1965.
The cathedral bells, cast in 1806, are the oldest ring of eight in Australia. The current organ was built in 1902 by Henry Willis & Sons and is the fourth instrument to be housed in the Cathedral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Diocese_of_Wangaratta
The earliest Anglican church building in Wangaratta was built in 1856 to the designs of James Dobbyn. The present Cathedral was designed by Walter Butler of firm of Butler & Bradshaw. Walter Richmond Butler was an accomplished English-trained architect with direct links to the English arts and crafts movement.
The design was completed in stages. The first section, comprising half of the present nave, with wooden ends, was opened in 1909. The sanctuary and choir, Lady Chapel and vestries were opened in 1924. The final section, comprising the façade, baptistry and the raising of the roof to its full height of 85 ft (to the top of the gable crosses), was completed in 1965 to the designs of Louis Williams, who modified Butler’s original (unpopular, but avant-garde) plans that envisaged two slim towers at the west end with thin tapered spires. The building was constructed of brick externally faced with granite. Internally, the brickwork is used imaginatively, with diaper patterns in black brick while the aisles are ingeniously tunnelled through transverse arches. The temporary tower houses a peal of eight Rudhall bells cast in the early 19th century for St George’s Church, Bolton, in the UK. The Cathedral stands in the middle of a splendid close of almost seven acres. Stained glass includes windows by Auguste Fischer in the nave and porch and Brooks Robinson in the Lady Chapel.
https://www.ohta.org.au/confs/Albury/WangWillis.html
