St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral

St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral is a National Historic Site of Canada in Victoria, British Columbia.

British Columbia · Blanshard Street, Victoria, British Columbia · location approximate

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ST. ANDREW'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL Soaring skywards with its bold array of coloured brick, stone and slate, St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral displays the confident spirituality that characterizes the best religious architecture of the High Victorian Gothic style. Designed in 1892 by Perrault and Mesnard of Montréal, St. Andrew's was inspired by the medieval cathédrale of Europe, whose emphatic verticality and picturesque asymmetry greatly appealed to 19th-century Roman Catholic taste. The wall patterns, created by combining building materials of different colours, are a distinctive feature of the mature phase of the Gothic Revival style.

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LA CATHÉDRALE CATHOLIQUE ST. ANDREW Pointant vers le ciel son ensemble audacieux et coloré de briques, de pierres et d'ardoises, la cathédrale catholique St. Andrew témoigne de la spiritualité confiante propre à la meilleure architecture religieuse de style High Victorian Gothic. Conçue en 1892 par Perrault et Mesnard, de Montréal, elle s'inspire des cathédrales de l'Europe médiévale, dont la verticalité hardie et l'asymétrie pittoresque plaisaient tant aux catholiques du XIXe siècle. Les décorations murales, créées par des matériaux de couleurs différentes, sont également typiques de la période de maturité du néo-gothique.

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