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Via Vintage St. John's.
From the London Times:
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The Fire at St. John's, Newfoundland
Among the public edifices destroyed, with hundreds of private dwellings, by the recent calamitous fire in the city of St. John's, that magnificient structure, the cathedral church of St. John the Baptist, which belonged to the Church of England is left in ruins.
It was esteemed the finest ecclesiastical building in the British American colonies and its erection, begun in 1846, continued at intervals in after years, had cost altogether not much less than 100,000 pounds, much of this money having been collected in England, by the efforts of successive bishops.
The architectural designs, of pointed Gothic style, were furnished by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott. The nave was completed and opened for service in 1850; the transepts, chancel and tower were added not many years ago.
In a very short time, the disastrous conflagration of July 9, which has been described, made utter havoc with this noble cathedral; the windows and doors gave way to the flames, which entered and consumed the whole interior; the entire roof fell down, the massive stone pillars and part of the walls. Our Illustrations show what now remains of that stately edifice.
The Bishop, the Right Rev. Llewellyn Jones, D.D., who lost also his house with its contents, and had barely time to escape with his family, is condoled with by people of all classes and creeds. We are indebted to Mr. Parsons of St. John's Newfoundland for the photographs from which our Illustrations are taken.
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