History

====//St Paul's Cathedral is built on the site where the first public Christian service was held in 1836. A wooden shack that served as a chapel was built elsewhere and at the time the grounds were being used as a corn market until 1848, when it was made into the first Christian Parish church. The church was consecrated (to declare or seperate as sacred) in 1852 and was used until 1885 when it was demolished and cleared to make way for the new cathedral that still stands to this day. The foundations of the catherdal were laid in 1880 when the architect William Butterfield took over the project and then resigned for a time in 1882 and then completly in 1884. The achitect Joseph Reed took the project in 1884 but then surprisingly died in 1885 without being able to make a huge difference on the cathedral. The cathedral was consecrated on the 22nd of January 1991. The spires were erected in 1926 and built with John Barr's design instead of William Butterfield's. In the 1960s work was carried out on the outer side of the tower and in 1989 a trust was created to raise money for the restoration of the 3000 pipe organ on the right side of the cathedral. In 2009 work was carried out on the interior of the cathedral and replaced all the wooden fittings that were beginning to rot.//====