Historic Images of Sydney's Catholic Cathedrals : 24

Saint Mary's Cathedral from Hyde Park, 1930.
Image : The Saint Bede Studio.

We continue our series of historic photographs commemorating the bi-centenary of Saint Mary's Cathedral (1821-2021), but take a leap forward by a few years with this image taken in 1930 by an amateur photographer.

This photograph, taken in Hyde Park and looking south-east, shews the Cathedral in its completed state after the additions which were constructed between 1914 and 1928.  

In order to depict what is in the photograph more clearly, we include the photograph below from our previous post, which depicts the additions in the early stages of their construction. It is taken from almost the identical angle to the 1930 photograph.  Hyde Park also has changed in those eight or nines years : trees have grown up, but other trees and landscaping have disappeared.  This was the consequence of much of the centre of the Park being dug up in the early 1920s during the extension of the City Circle underground railway.

Saint Mary's Cathedral circa 1921.
Image : State Library of NSW

In our previous articles, we posted photographs illustrating the stages of the construction of the present Saint Mary's Cathedral, to be found at the following links :

1871              1882             1883             1886

1887              1890             1892             1895

1896               1901             1902            1905

1907               1910            1912             1914             

1915               1917

Click on the image for an enlarged view.

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 held by the State Library of NSW.  Thanks are due to Special Collections of the State Library for undertaking a search to locate this and other rare images.  Please do not reproduce these unique images without permission.