Where the story began…

St George's Cathedral is a unique architectural, historical, religious jewel in the City of Perth.  Its antecedents, the Church of St George, which was located approximately opposite the current West door of the Cathedral and extended North to Howick Street ( Hay Street ), together with other locations of the church, including the Burt Law Centre, extend back to the earliest days of the Swan River Colony, when Lieutenant Frederick Irwin, Commander of the Perth Garrison, built a Rush Church in December 1829 ( approximately where the Fire Station now stands ). 

The Cathedral is a Gothic Revival building of considerable beauty and awe, having been completed as a whole in 1888.  Its primary structures are handmade clay bricks from the clay pits in what is now the Queens Gardens, Victorian Blue Stone Pillars combined with South Fremantle limestone footings, Jarrah beams (bent by soaking in the Swan River ) and Oregon pine ceilings and infills.  Its fittings include an Italian Marble Reredos, with English Alabaster Carved inserts, containing the Cathedra (throne) of the Archbishop of Perth, a Caen Stone Pulpit, hand made tiled floors and many beautiful stained glass windows.  It has a castellated bell tower (now repaired and complete with a new gargoyle ) containing a peal of 8 of bells which are rung every Sunday and on other special days of the year.

This precious building is being restored to its former glory and preserved for future generations.