St George's Cathedral
Gothic revival cathedral of jarrah beams and rose brick, its bell tower cracked once by an earthquake.
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This guide to Saint George's Cathedral in Perth centres on one afternoon in May two thousand eight, when Noongar elders and Anglican clergy shared the same nave for a ceremony the Australian church had never held before. It follows Kay Goldsworthy, an archdeacon from the diocese, through a service mixing native smoke, didgeridoos, incense and old prostration ritual, and the resistance the day drew from clergy elsewhere in the country. Look for the fifteenth century statue of Saint George in the north transept.
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