The Cathedral Church of St. James
Gothic Revival cathedral with Canada's tallest steeple, rebuilt from ashes of a great city fire.
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This guide to the Cathedral Church of St. James in Toronto opens at three in the morning on April 7, 1849, with a city on fire and a church whose bells doubled as the town's alarm. Along the way you'll meet a crowd that came to watch, a newspaper's angry verdict, and the architects Frederic Cumberland and Thomas Ridout, who won a competition of eleven entries. Best heard from the pavement out front, facing the church.
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