Conserving Quality

St Paul’s was originally designed by architect Frederick Thatcher, and occupied in 1866. The story of Thatcher andthis pro-cathedral was interwoven with that of the colony during its first twenty-five years of organised settlement. In the following decades the building was expanded and added to in carefully matching sympathy. This not only doubled its capacity, but blended a creative organic spirit through the spatial composition greatly increasing its historic story - always sensitive to the whole as an architectural concept. The flexibility of crafted woodwork lent itself so well to this expansion.