The Front of the Cathedral Building

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Again Mr Petre's plan for the Cathedral was not fulfilled. His original plan provided for 36 Steps in native white marble thirty-three feet wide, and at each of the four corners of the wall there was to be placed a gas lamp of decorated cast iron twelve feet high.

In 1891 Mr Petre designed the present flight of concrete steps leading up to the Cathedral porch, the iron gates and fences. Previously the Cathedral was approached by paths from Smith and Rattray Streets. The entrance iron gates were erected in 1892.

The swing gates of an intricate design run on little wheels and were made by Birmingham and Co. The contractors for the steps and the surrounds were Parker and McNamara, and Ferry and Washer did the plastering work.

On the porch wall left and right of the main entrance doorway are six arches with their supporting columns in Oamaru stone. Although the eight column heads are ready for carving, only one has been carved by Mr Godfrey. The six arches on the wall, the arch above the main doorway entrance, and the three main archways leading up the steps into the Cathedral porch all bring out the great richness and detail of the Gothic architecture. With arches on both sides of the Cathedral porch, the effect is given of a cloister way leading along to the baptistery which, until recently, was in the north porch.
   

A more detailed photo showing the entrance to the Cathedral porch. The clustered pillars from the three entrances, the centre archway being twenty-four feet high and twelve feet wide, and the other archways twelve feet high and four feet wide. The
stone carving and the surrounds on the facade reflect the craftsmanship of those responsible for it

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