St Andrew’s Cathedral

I literally had only a few minutes to see the inside of this church to catch my ferry, but St. Andrew’s Cathedral needed only a few minutes to impress me. Like the previous reviewer said, this Catholic cathedral is one of the area’s oldest and is now a National Historic Site. However, the most memorable part about this church is the impressive lineup of various beautiful stained glass windows. Because of the stained glass windows, the inside was lit by lights of various colors and thus created a surreal yet warm feeling as if the church was physically filled with God’s love.
That being said, I wished I stayed longer to take a closer inspection of the beautiful church. Since this is so close to the Inner Harbor area, you should definitely take at least a short look into this small yet magnificent cathedral.

St. Andrew’s Cathedral serves the diocese of Victoria. Built in the High Victorian Gothic style, St. Andrew’s was Victoria’s third cathedral to be built and was completed in 1892. Last restored in 1993, it is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the Victoria area and a National Historic Site since 1990. Gayle and I stopped during Gayle one of our long walks in and around Victoria.
The Cathedral cost CAD$ 81,052 to build at the time and the design borrowed much from the medieval architecture of European churches. The double asymmetrical towers are typical of Quebec churches and a characteristic of the High Victorian Gothic style. This was an attempt to follow the «unfinished» look that made fourteenth and fifteenth century churches popular. The nave is seventy-​two feet long, with a rose window. The main tower boasts a 175-​foot spire that was originally designed to hold a clock and a set of bells.