St Andrew's Cathedral

This guide to St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney opens with Bishop William Grant Broughton, buried at Canterbury Cathedral in England, forever separated from the one built in his name here on George and Bathurst streets. It follows two failed attempts to raise a cathedral on this corner, in 1819 and 1837, before a young architect named Edmund Blacket arrived in 1842 with a letter of recommendation and an impossible job. Listen for how Blacket built on the wreckage of somebody else's failed foundations.