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St Saviour's Cathedral (other)
St Saviour's Cathedral or variations may refer to: Australia * St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn, New South Wales France * Aix Cathedral (') * Cayenne Cathedral (') * Vabres Cathedral ('), a former cathedral South Africa * St Saviour's Cathedral, Pietermaritzburg United Kingdom * Southwark Cathedral, the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London See also * St Saviour (other) * St Sauveur (other) * San Salvador (other) San Salvador (Spanish for "Holy Savior") is the capital of El Salvador. San Salvador may also refer to: Places * Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, El Salvador * San Salvador Department, El Salvador * San Salvador District, Peru * San Salvador, E ... * St Saviour's Church (other) {{disambiguation, church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn
The St Saviour's Cathedral is the heritage-listed cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn in Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree Council, New South Wales, Australia. The cathedral is dedicated to Jesus, in his title of Saviour. The current dean is the Very Reverend Phillip Saunders. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 20 April 2009. History In 1840 a simple brick church to the designs of a Sydney architect, James Hume, was erected. This Church of Saint Saviour was in the manner of English parish churches with a bold square western tower and a simple axiality complementing the Georgian town plan. Built by James Wilson, a convict arriving in the colony aboard thLord Sidmouthin 1819, and his relation Henry Wilson, the foundation stones were obtained from the quarries known as Munoz's on Church Hill. James Wilson died during construction of the church after falling from the roof. of the original church hangs in the narthex of the curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aix Cathedral
Aix Cathedral (french: Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence) in Aix-en-Provence in southern France is a Roman Catholic church and the seat of the Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence and Arles. The cathedral is built on the site of the 1st-century Roman forum of Aix. Built and re-built from the 12th until the 19th century, it includes Romanesque, Gothic and Neo-Gothic elements, as well as Roman columns and parts of the baptistery from a 6th-century Christian church. It is a national monument of France. Origin of the cathedral The cathedral is located on the route of the Roman road, the Via Aurelia. A fragment of a Roman wall and the columns of the baptistery seem to be the origin of the legend that the church was built on top of a Roman temple dedicated to Apollo. The historian Scholastique Pitton (1668) claimed that the temple had been dedicated to a sun god, basing his claim upon the discovery of the leg of a statue uncovered at the site. According to the Christian tradition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
