Christ Church Cathedral Architect: C.O. Wickenden, 1889 and 1894 This is the oldest church building in Vancouver. The original foundation, built of granite quarried from Little Mountain, was covered with a temporary roof permitting Christ Church's first service to be held in October 1889. The present Gothic Revival sandstone building with its narrow arched windows was constructed in 1894-95. The interior features a roof supported by hammerbeam trusses in the style of large English halls and churches dating back to the 1300s. In 1929 Christ Chuch was dedicated as a Cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster. In 2004 the church was extensively upgraded and the original fir flooring, cedar tongue and groove ceiling and stained glass windows were restored. Kenneth Jones of Bray, Ireland, built a tracker organ for the new gallery superceding chancel organs by Casavant Freres (1949), Robert Hope-Jones (1911) and the first builder (unknown, 1895). This resoration work received a City of Vancouver Heritage Award and a Heritage Canada Foundation Achievement Award.

Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC
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Colour: bronze

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