St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn, Anglican cathedral in Goulburn, Australia.
St Saviour's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the centre of Goulburn, New South Wales, built in the Gothic Revival style from local sandstone. The building features pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses, with detailed stonework running across its walls and towers.
Work on the cathedral started in 1874 to a design by architect Edmund Blacket, replacing an earlier brick church from 1840. After a decade of construction, the building was completed in 1884.
The cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, and the Very Reverend Gavin Krebs serves as dean. A painting of James Hume's original 1840 brick church hangs in the narthex. Bricks from that earlier church were reused in the floor of the present building.
The cathedral stands on Bourke Street in central Goulburn, with the 1874 pro-cathedral and parish Sunday school still standing in the precinct west of the main building. The tower and spire were never completed, so the tower stump is what visitors see today. The site is a short walk from the town centre.
The tower and spire were never completed: Edmund Blacket died in 1883, and later schemes in 1909 and the 1920s came to nothing. Geotechnical drilling in the 1980s found the footings inadequate, so the tower stump still stands as built.
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