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St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral 1872

St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral 1872

By

Charles Percy Pickering

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1107067 / PXD 524, 65]

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

English

Sydney has been seen as an 'English' town since first European settlement, with visitors describing its English character well into the nineteenth century. Successive waves of English-born convicts, settlers, and assisted immigrants helped shape the city, and the English remain the largest overseas-born group.

Anglican

Religious building

St Andrew's Cathedral

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Designed by Edmund Blacket in the Perpendicular Gothic style, the Cathedral was consecrated in 1868. The cathedral was built on the site of a smaller temporary structure authorised by Governor Macquarie in 1812.