The cathedral was in ruins and emergency rebuilding took place immediately. This temporary solution lasted until the s! Tower Deconstructed For safety reasons the tower was deconstructed under the supervision of engineers, a heritage professional and an archaeologist. Cathedral Working Group Established The Cathedral Working Group was established by the Government and Church Property Trustees to investigate and recommend a viable way forward, their report recommended reinstatement.
Work Begins Workers and the Cathedral site were blessed so the first physical work could begin. Work Commences Work commences at the cathedral with a site blessing. Order in Council Enacted Order in Council enacted. If the symbolism of the collapsed cathedral was clear, the challenge — once the dust settled and the rebuild got under way — lay in how to interpret it.
Various options — including reinstating the cathedral exactly as it was, rebuilding it to a new design, and demolishing it and starting over entirely — were explored and often hotly debated. The fight over the cathedral reflected tensions prevailing in the city at the time, such as between local and central government, says Ian Lochhead, an architectural historian and visiting associate professor at the University of Canterbury. Those losses galvanised some who were fighting to save the cathedral — but not before the bitter debate over it had made others lose faith in its significance entirely.
Even Spigel felt like she had to guard against a congregation — and a cause — she had cherished, switching for a time to the progressive Knox Presbyterian church. Spigel had little need, or desire, to go into the city with its new, glass buildings. Eventually — through fluctuating public opinion, a protracted legal action and even attempts at mediation — in September the Anglican Synod voted to reinstate the cathedral. In August it signed a joint venture agreement with Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Limited CCRL , a government entity set up to deliver the project with a separate fundraising arm.
Lochhead is a trustee. But finally, a decade after the disaster, a path forward has emerged that — he hopes — will help the city and its people to heal. Unlike the strong Gothic influences of the Anglican cathedral and other buildings in the city centre, it was based on the Renaissance style of architecture, and is regarded as the best example of this style in New Zealand. There is a story that when the well-known playwright George Bernard Shaw visited Christchurch in , he complimented the city on its beautiful cathedral.
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