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It's a shame what Helgo Zettervall did to this church!

I just went and looked a picture of how the church looks now. I agree, it is a shame that he changed it. Why not just build another?

Another picture of the present towers, this time from Geocentrum.

YlvaS & Henke! : Thank you both for posting these beautiful photographs showing the Cathedral and its surroundings in recent time. /Anna B.

The place has historic significance for its associations with Cairns' first Anglican church. The first St John’s Church of England was built in 1884 on the site of the current Cairns City Library in Abbott Street. The timber church building was destroyed by a cyclone in 1920. The current St John's Church was built to replace it between 1926 and 1927. The place has local aesthetic significance as a building designed in the Romanesque style by the notable Cairns architect Richard Hill. The place has had local significance as a place of worship since 1927. A compact Romanesque style church entered via the porch at the Minnie Street, Lake Street corner with a high nave running east - west and on the exterior a cloister style verandah running east west along the Minnie Street façade with round headed arcading on short columns. Windows high up on the nave are also round-headed paired windows with vent louvers rather than glazing. At the cloister verandah, the doors are timber-framed and fully glazed. At the east end of the nave in the gable, the apex is a round (quatrefoil) window above a series of long thin round-headed windows allowing light into the tall nave space and other rooms. Source: www.cairns.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/162709/... complete with a timbered ceiling above hammerhead support beams. The body of the building is concrete with engaged pilasters which pick up the roof beam supports on the church interior. The roof cladding is Marseilles terracotta tiles. On the interior the reredos (timber screen behind the altar) is dedicated to the dead of the two World Wars. On the north side of the body of the church but external to it, is vestry space and

wow, that's an interesting tower

oaktree_brian_1976 Another photo from about the same spot, taken ca 50 years earlier: /Anna B.

it's been around for a few years then! :)

oaktree_brian_1976 Quite so! :) Actually one of the oldest secular buildings in Scandinavia, built about 1160-1161...and the oldest part of Visby city wall. Read more on Wikipedia about the city wall and its towers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_city_wall /Anna