St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne
Gothic Revival sandstone cathedral designed by post from England, crowned by spires added decades later.
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This guide to St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne follows William Butterfield, the English architect who designed the building entirely by letter without ever visiting Australia. It traces years of transatlantic corrections over stone and arches, and the small dispute in 1884 that made him walk off the project for good. Look up at the pale sandstone walls he chose from afar but never saw in person.
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