St Josephs Church Hall

This is Rattray Street, Dunedin


An early entry was the Baptist Sunday School building on Hanover Street and it appears that it is not just the Baptists who are recycling their buildings This was once the parish hall for St Josephs Catholic Cathedral and was presumably the scene of many hopefully happy events. Music and laughter are likely to still be a factor as this building is now converted into flats and seem to be mostly inhabited by student types based on my non scientific and very occasional observations.


This is the Cathedral in question

And while this is quite a grand structure it was never built (or in this case completed) as designed with this being what it was meant to look like

Like a lot of churches this one was designed in the shape of a cross and the "cross bar" was never built which was also intended to house the imposing spire. A pity it was never completed as it would have been a fantastic building.

Speaking of the way things were here is a shot of the hall before the greenery obscured the view

You will of course note the cable car that used to make its way up Rattray Street and the fact that it goes around this corner. This was a new inovation at the time it was installed with most cable cars in the world just going in straight lines.

Here is the same car looking toward the church