| St Boniface Cathedral, Bunbury | |||||||||||||
| Fullname: | Cathedral Church of St Boniface | ||||||||||||
| Location: | , Western Australia | ||||||||||||
| Country: | Australia | ||||||||||||
| Denomination: | Anglican Church of Australia | ||||||||||||
| Religious Order: | --> | ||||||||||||
| Address: | 33 Parkfield Street, Bunbury WA 6230 | ||||||||||||
| Former Names: | --> | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Cathedral | ||||||||||||
| Dedication: | Saint Boniface | ||||||||||||
| Consecrated Date: | 14 October 1962 | ||||||||||||
| Functional Status: | Active | ||||||||||||
| Heritage Designation: | State Register of Heritage Places | ||||||||||||
| Designated Date: | 15 April 2003 | ||||||||||||
| Previous Cathedrals: | St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Victoria Street | ||||||||||||
| Architectural Type: | Cathedral | ||||||||||||
| Style: | Post-War Ecclesiastical | ||||||||||||
| Years Built: | 1961–1962 | ||||||||||||
| Completed Date: | November 1962 | ||||||||||||
| Construction Cost: | £91,116 | ||||||||||||
| Materials: | Yellow face brick, Terracotta tiles | ||||||||||||
| Bells Hung: | --> | ||||||||||||
| Parish: | Bunbury | ||||||||||||
| Diocese: | Bunbury | ||||||||||||
| Diocese Start: | 1962 | ||||||||||||
| Province: | Western Australia | ||||||||||||
| Bishop: | Ian Coutts | ||||||||||||
| Dean: | Darryl Cotton | ||||||||||||
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St Boniface Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in, a coastal city in the south west region of Western Australia. It was consecrated in 1962.[1]
The cathedral is the focal point of a precinct of ecclesiastical buildings on Brent Tor, an elevated location south of central Bunbury.[2] [3] One of the city's highest sites,[2] the precinct also includes Bishopscourt (residence of the Bishop of Bunbury), a Calvary Wayside Shrine and Memorial Lawn, and the Walker Memorial Hall and Church Offices, as well as the Archdeacon's Residence, Deanery, and Former Deanery.[3]
The cathedral is built of double yellow face brickwork. It has a parapeted clock tower, an undercroft crypt, stained glass memorial windows, and a gabled terracotta tiled roof.[1]
Architecturally, the cathedral has been described as "... an outstanding example of the Post-War Ecclesiastical style ...", and as "modern Gothic".[1]
According to the Assessment Documentation prepared by the Heritage Council of Western Australia for the cathedral's and Bishopscourt's joint inclusion in the State Register of Heritage Places as a Parent Place or Precinct, the cathedral was and is:
Amongst the materials used in the cathedral's construction were 410,000 standard bricks, 8,000 special bricks, 75,000 roof tiles, and of concrete. A total of of blackbutt timber was required to complete the nave ceiling; the floor parquetry is fashioned from of the same timber.[1]
The western elevation of the cathedral is in the form of a brick gable. Projecting from its centre is a full height gabled bay, with a cross at the apex. In the middle of the projection, recessed into its alcove, is a stained glass window, also full height; it is decorated with stone tracery in the form of the tree of life.[3]
On the south side of the western elevation is a south-facing double height main entrance porch framed by a pair of wide brick piers, and gabled.[1] [3] The main entrance itself is a pair of ledge and braced doors beneath a tall highlight window recessed into the porch.[1] [3]
At its eastern end, on both sides of the tower, the cathedral descends one level, to a wide semi-circular terrace with a concrete retaining wall. From there, a set of stairs leads down further to the Memorial Lawn at natural ground level.[3]