Cathedrals in Australia - St Peter's Cathedral, Armidale Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
By
Team MavEtJu on 05-Oct-17. Waypoint GA10828
Cache Details
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| Type: | Virtual |
| Container: | Virtual |
| Coordinates: | S30° 30.906' E151° 39.912' (WGS 84) |
| 56J 371926E 6623377N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 992 m |
| Local Government Area: | Armidale |
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Description
Cathedrals in Australia - St Peter's Cathedral, Armidale
St Peter's Cathedral, Armidale is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Armidale in New South Wales, Australia.
Named for St Peter, the cathedral replaced the previous St Peter's Parish Church at the creation of the diocese. The cathedral was consecrated for worship in 1875 and the foundation stone was laid by James F. Turner, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale.
The cathedral building was designed by the Canadian architect John Horbury Hunt who also designed Booloominbah and Trevenna at the University of New England and cathedrals in the adjoining dioceses of Newcastle and Grafton. It is constructed of "Armidale blue brick", using clay dug from Saumarez, the property of prominent local F. J. White. Uralla granite was used for the foundations, steps and keystones of the arches.
For more information, see the Wikipedia entry.
Denomination: Anglican
Founded: 1875
Dedication: St Peter the Apostle
When logging this virtual cache, please add a photo of yourself and/or your GNSSr receiver in front of this building!
Logs
In Armidale for a couple of nights - time to get a few GA caches. Picture of cathedral attached
We are in town for a few days and what better way to spend Easter Sunday than touring the churches of Armidale.
Thanks for the virtual.
Thanks for the virtual.
Found this magnificent building on an Easter weekend trip to Armidale. A few people were wandering the grounds of the Cathedral today, presumably a Good Friday service of some kind.
Magnificent cathedral, spotted on a walk around to stretch our legs.
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Another one spotted in Armidale while passing through. Starting to get a collection of this series....
Team MavEtJu.
Team MavEtJu.
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Smittengranny and I are travelling from Glen Innes to Muswelbrook today gathering photos of as many trigs and Virtuals as we can on the way. Thanks for publishing this virtual team mavetju.
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TG47 and I are travelling from Glen Innes to Muswelbrook today gathering photos of as many trigs and Virtuals as we can on the way. Thanks for publishing this cache for us to find Team mavetju 
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GCA 2,795. Found with albida33 during a caching run around the Tamworth/Armidale region.
One of the GCA Virtuals we found along the way. A lovely area to visit.
TFTC !!
One of the GCA Virtuals we found along the way. A lovely area to visit.
TFTC !!
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Day 32 Mainland trip
On the move from Uralla to Tenterfield we stopped to find a few caches in Armidale. Here we located another in the Cathedral series. Another one ticked off. TFTV
On the move from Uralla to Tenterfield we stopped to find a few caches in Armidale. Here we located another in the Cathedral series. Another one ticked off. TFTV
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After logging the cathedral up the road, I strolled down to this one. Another monumental piece of architecture. Thanks for the Cathedral!
Another impressive cathedral - required pic has been added to the gallery.
Many thanks Team MavEtJu for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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Day two of our trip to the Mega and travelling from our over night stop in Tenterfield after 8 hours on the road yesterday. Today caching our way south only as far as Armidale but a lot of caches to get both GGCA and of course GC.
Parked in the street right out in front and took the required photos. TFTC Team MavEtju
Parked in the street right out in front and took the required photos. TFTC Team MavEtju
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Sorry about the sun, but it wanted in on any shot showing the cathedral, the sign and myself.
No time for even a glimpse in here - it'll wait until the next visit.
TFTC Team MavEtJu.
TFT
No time for even a glimpse in here - it'll wait until the next visit.
TFTC Team MavEtJu.
TFT
For us, this series of cathedrals raised a question - what makes a church a cathedral? Clearly not what MrsG thought, a steeple, because the Presbyterian Church not far from this has one and it's not listed. But these days you don't have to die wondering, 
and we went where everyone goes, the net ....... and this is what we got. A cathedral contains the seat of a bishop thus serving as the central church of a diocese.
With that sorted we rolled up for a pic carefully getting the GPS in the corner, peering up and down so as not to cut off the steeple though we now know even if we did it wouldn't reduce it to a church,
......... a-n-d snap. Happy with that we left. Don't know what forces were at play but the result was two cathedral pics (St.Mary & Josephs as well) and no GPS in either. 
We may get back for another shot but hey! this could be bigger than both of us!
TFTC Team MavEtJu
and we went where everyone goes, the net ....... and this is what we got. A cathedral contains the seat of a bishop thus serving as the central church of a diocese. With that sorted we rolled up for a pic carefully getting the GPS in the corner, peering up and down so as not to cut off the steeple though we now know even if we did it wouldn't reduce it to a church,
......... a-n-d snap. Happy with that we left. Don't know what forces were at play but the result was two cathedral pics (St.Mary & Josephs as well) and no GPS in either. We may get back for another shot but hey! this could be bigger than both of us!TFTC Team MavEtJu
Rated: for Overall Experience
Pulled up at the park for a relief stop and to let my car cool down. Having engine troubles today. Not good. Meant to be at an engagement party in 2 hours. Realised there were a few gca caches here to find so went for a walk while letting the car cool. Pretty cool cathedrals here. Thanks for the virtual.
