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Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia

St. Mary's Cathedral at Night - Fine art print of Sydney, NSW, Australia - Fountain above Cook & Phillip Park Aquatic and Fitness Centre in front of the St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, NSW, Australia in the evening. - Image ID: AU-SYDNEY-ST-MARYS-CATHEDRAL-0001

St. Mary's Cathedral at Night
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St. Mary's Cathedral - Fine art print of Sydney, NSW, Australia - In cross-section the St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, NSW, Australia is typical of most large churches in having a high central nave and an aisle on either side, which serve to buttress the nave and provide passage around the interior. The interior of the nave thus rises in three stages, the arcade, the gallery and the clerestory which has windows to light the nave. The building is of golden-coloured sandstone which has weathered externally to golden-brown. The roof is of red cedar, that of the nave being of an open arch-braced construction enlivened by decorative pierced carvings. The chancel is vaulted with timber, which was probably intended to be richly decorated in red, blue and gold after the manner of the wooden roof at Peterborough, but this did not eventuate, and the warm colour of the timber contrasts well with the stonework. - Image ID: AU-SYDNEY-ST-MARYS-CATHEDRAL-0002

St. Mary's Cathedral
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St. Mary's Cathedral at Night - Fine art print of Sydney, NSW, Australia - Despite the many English features of the architecture including its interior and chancel termination, the entrance facade of the St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, NSW, Australia is not English at all. It is a design loosely based on the most famous of all Gothic west fronts, that of Notre Dame de Paris with its balance of vertical and horizontal features, its three huge portals and its central rose window. There are two more large rose windows, one in each of the transepts. The French facade was, however, intended to have twin stone spires like those of Lichfield Cathedral, but they were not to be put in place until 132 years after the building was commenced. - Image ID: AU-SYDNEY-ST-MARYS-CATHEDRAL-0003

St. Mary's Cathedral at Night
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St. Mary's Cathedral Interior - Fine art print of Sydney, NSW, Australia - The side aisles in St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, NSW, Australia are vaulted in stone, with a large round boss at the centre of each ribbed vault. Children who, over the years, have crawled into the arched space beneath the pulpit have discovered another such beautiful carved boss, in miniature and usually unseen. On all the terminals of arches within the buildings are carved heads of saints. Those that are near the confessionals are at eye-level and may be examined for their details. The screen behind the high altar is delicately carved in Oamaru limestone from New Zealand. It contains many open niches, but these, like the similar niches in the altar of Our Lady located directly behind the high altar, are empty and the statues have never been completed. There are two large chapels and two smaller ones, the larger being the Chapel of the Sacred Heart and the Chapel of the Irish Saints. On either side of the Lady Chapel are the Chapels of Ss Joseph and Peter all with ornately carved altars and a small statue in each niche. The embellished mosaics in the Kelly Chapel floor were laid by Melocco Co in 1937 approximately the same time as the mosaic floor in the Lady Chapel of St John's College also designed by Wardell. - Image ID: AU-SYDNEY-ST-MARYS-CATHEDRAL-0004

St. Mary's Cathedral Interior
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St. Mary's Cathedral at Dusk - Fine art print of Sydney, NSW, Australia - Looking towards St. Mary's Cathedral and Cook & Phillip Park Aquatic and Fitness Centre in Sydney, NSW, Australia at night. - Image ID: AU-SYDNEY-ST-MARYS-CATHEDRAL-0005

St. Mary's Cathedral at Dusk
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The St Mary's Cathedral or The Metropolitan Cathedral of St Mary is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and the seat of the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell. The cathedral is dedicated to 'Mary, Help of Christians', Patron of Australia. St Mary's holds the title and dignity of a minor basilica, bestowed upon it by Pope Pius XI in 1930. St Mary's Cathedral is the largest church in Australia, though not the highest. It is located on College Street in the heart of the City of Sydney where, despite the high rise development of the Sydney central business district (CBD), its imposing structure and twin spires make it a landmark from every direction.

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