Please partner us in this important project by making a donation. Thank you. Moveable Feasts are the providers for all catered events at the Transitional Cathedral. To protect the Cathedral Columbarium during the Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Project, the Columbarium will be deconstructed, stored safely and re-built at a later date. Families are welcome to visit the Transitional Cathedral, should they wish to visit, to pray, and pay their respects.
Transitional Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand. Cart 0. Menu Cart 0. Please click on the button to see the full Dean's Message. The building measured 61 metres by 21 metres with the The tower was 36 metres high and the spire 27 metres — a total of 63 metres from the ground to the cross at the top. The tower housed 13 bells, the heaviest of which weighed 1. The nave was about feet long, and the circular stone staircase to the tower had steps.
The West Porch was a benchmark for Christchurch as it is 6. The dignity and beauty of the interior of the Cathedral was enhanced by many fine features including the high altar flanked by three wooden carvings and the pulpit with its four white alabaster carvings. At the west end of the Cathedral was the Rose Window which represented the different orders of Angels. Underneath were the mosaics, made in Venice, representing the six works of Mercy.
In the North Transept of the Cathedral was a recumbent statue of Bishop Harper, first Bishop of Christchurch, and some striking modern stained glass. In two plane trees were planted in the grounds on the south side of the Cathedral by the Christchurch Beautifying Society. Interior and exterior refurbishing of the Cathedral was completed in The chancel was restructured in The Centre was to help accommodate the more than , visitors who visited the Cathedral annually.
The centre housed a shop, restaurant, display and exhibition area, and provided an appropriate reception and information area for visitors to the Cathedral. A columbarium was built in ChristChurch Cathedral had 13 bells and a team of bellringers. The bells were rung for many religious occasions and also special events like the arrival of the godwits in spring. The Cathedral has the only professional choir of boys and men in New Zealand one of only two in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Cathedral has played an important part in the life of the city as the venue for many official events. In more recent years, it has been a venue for musical performance and also for the annual floral festival. Here are some photographs of the Floral Festival showing the Cathedral. For many years the public were able to access the top of the spire for a small fee and look out across the city from one of four balconies.
Averaging , visitors each year a visitor centre was added to the Cathedral which was officially opened by the Queen on the 4th of November Christchurch Cathedral was affected by earthquakes on 5 December , 1 September and 16 November Each time the spire was damaged. After the earthquake, the top of the tower was replaced by hardwood sheathed in copper.
The Cathedral suffered minor damage in the earthquakes of September and December , but was devastated by the 22 February earthquake. No one was killed in the building. Elsewhere in the city, shiny new buildings are popping up, along with innovative playgrounds and parks.
There also remains a disparity in neighborhoods. Parts of the city to the west look much as they did before the quake. But in the east, where the ground was prone to liquefaction, entire suburbs have been razed. Authorities have deemed the land too unstable for rebuilding.
Some suburbs now look like giant parks, with a few fruit trees and power lines the only sign that homes were once there.
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