Saint Mary's Cathedral
Gothic cathedral raised in stages, its walls left visibly unfinished for seventy years.
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This guide to Saint Mary's Cathedral in Perth opens on a wet April night in 1926, when Archbishop Patrick Clune laid a foundation stone before an enormous crowd. It follows architect Michael Cavanagh's Gothic plan, the modest clay-brick church of 1865 it was meant to swallow, and the years when money ran out and metal bands were left jutting from a wall. Best heard standing in the grounds, facing the front of the building.
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