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Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King is a Roman Catholic church highly visible as you drive past Main St on Hwy 403. Come and find the cache and have a look at the incredible architecture of this building
William Russell Souter was the architect that designed it, and it was built by Joseph Pigott, a construction giant who headed the family business that built Hamilton landmarks including City Hall, the Pigott Building, Copps Coliseum and Christ the King Cathedral. It was built between 1930-33.
Renovations were carried out in 1981 when it was damaged by a fire earlier that year. Additional restoration work on the exterior of the building was performed in 2017.
Some highlights on the buildings features:
The cathedral interior is pure 13th Century English Gothic.
Two kinds of limestone grace its walls and pillars: Indiana Limestone and Ontario Credit Valley Limestone.
Its vaulted ceiling, with gold bosses, is a direct copy of Norwich Cathedral in England.
It has seating for over 1000 parishioners in the nave and 200 in the Sanctuary area, with television flat screens installed on the side Indiana limestone columns for blind spots.
A large 88-tonne marble Ciborium, sometimes erroneously called a Baldachino, in the shape of a crown, the symbol of a royalty and kingship, graces the north end of the cathedral over the tabernacle.
The cathedral is home to 82 stained glass windows
The 235-foot central nave is flanked by two side aisles divided by massive Indiana limestone pillars. The nave is 72 feet wide and 90 feet high. The rear narthex of the church contains a solid oak statue of Christ the King.
The choir loft houses a large, four manual Steinmeyer pipe organ built in Ottengen, Bavaria with almost 5,000 pipes To rebuild the organ in 2016 $ would most likely cost approximately $5 million CDN.
