Historic Images of Sydney's Catholic Cathedrals : 3

We continue our series of historic photographs commemorating the bi-centenary of Saint Mary's Cathedral (1821-2021).

This photograph was taken from an alternative direction from the previous two posts, but again looking across Hyde Park.  The photograph was taken 1882-83, just at the completion of the first stages of the Cathedral (1868-1882).

The angle of this photograph, however, makes it clear that the remnant of old Saint Mary's, ravaged by fire in 1865, was no more than a facade and the lower stages of a tower. 

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AMDG

NOTES

The photographs in this series are taken from a variety of sources, some in online Archival collections, some from books, some original images in the editor's collection.  They are presented here in a "modernised" digital form, and with as much detail of the structure of the Cathedrals enhanced in order to make them more accessible to a new generation of Australian Catholics.  The original image on  which this digital rendering is based is taken from the Sesqui-centenary commemorative book on Saint Mary's Cathedral, a collection of essays and photographs published in 1971 and edited by Professor Patrick O'Farrell. Please do not reproduce these unique images without permission.