Reverend Charles Walker Posnett and his family funded the cathedral. The cathedral was consecrated as the central place of worship in 1924. It is designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style.
Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest achievements—ambitious monuments where master architects, carpenters, stonemasons, and glassworkers pushed engineering to its limits.
John Loughborough Pearson was a British Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a ...