Holy Trinity Cathedral
Timber Gothic Revival church, once the largest wooden church in the world, rolled whole across a road to stand beside its stone successor.
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This guide to Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell, Auckland, turns on a winter morning in 1982, when locals watched an entire wooden church roll across the road on rollers and steel beams. It traces back to architect Benjamin Mountfort's decade of work, from 1886 to 1897, on the timber Saint Mary's, once claimed as the largest wooden Gothic church on earth. Look up at its steep gables and picture the small army it once took just to shift the building.
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