Approach, facade and interior.....

As you climb the hill up to St. Mary's Cathedral you get the first glimpses of the Gothic design building through the arch of an amazing Morton Bay Fig tree with branches that span right across the road, the root system which you unfortunately can't see here is enormous. St' Mary's Cathedral (history St. Mary ) has gone through three major stages of  development, the first stage 1865 - 1930, second stage 1930 - 1999 and the third stage 1999 to the present. At one point in the renovations, the entire roof structure had to be temporarily hoisted off  and then re-attached to a permanent steel structure, unfortunately you can see the steel pillars, but I guess it had to be made safe .It has quite a colourful history including  Bishops bodies being discovered under the floorboards in the aisle. If you're interested in knowing a bit more of the history the link above is very illuminating!! Happy Sunday.