Old Saint Mary's Cathedral : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral / Mr. Leeds
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | California's first cathedral. It was dedicated on July 17, 1853 by Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, the first Archbishop of San Francisco. The lot was donated by John Sullivan, who had emigrated from Ireland to California in 1844 and prospered. The lot was on the northeast corner of the intersection of California Street and Dupont (later Grant Avenue).The design was undertaken by architects William Craine and Thomas England, who designed the cathedral to resemble a Gothic church in Alemany's hometown in Vich, Spain. The new cathedral had parapets on either flank, surmounted with embrasures, and buttresses finished cut-stone pinnacles. Inside, a vaulted ceiling with groin arches rose above a Carrara marble altar imported from Rome. The original plan included a steeple, but the chance of an earthquake toppling it into the street changed the plans, leaving only a bell tower. The materials used to build San Francisco's first cathedral came from both East and West, as later did its parishioners. Granite was used around the base of the structure to deflect rainwater and for other trim. It was quarried in China and brought across the Pacific in Precut blocks. Bricks minted in New England for the outer walls came around Cape Horn as ship ballast. Locally quarried sandstone was use for the foundation, the clock trim and the main entrance. Lumber for beams, floors and other interior work, was also obtained locally.At Christmas Midnight Mass in 1854, the cathedral was dedicated. The workers who were wrapping up the details had left the building only three hours earlier. There were parts still unfinished, but the building was ready enough for use.www.oldsaintmarys.org/html/history.html |
| 撮影日 | 2011-03-05 10:45:10 |
| 撮影者 | Mr. Leeds |
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| 撮影地 | San Francisco, California, United States 地図 |