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Haurongo: Wood, Cecil Walter

Preliminary design for St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, 1941, by Cecil Walter Wood

Preliminary design for St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, 1941, by Cecil Walter Wood
Cecil Wood's reputation as New Zealand's leading church architect won him the commission to design St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, in 1937. The final design of 1946 was, however, controversial.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: C-121-034

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ruth M. Helms. 'Wood, Cecil Walter', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2171/preliminary-design-for-st-pauls-cathedral-wellington-1941-by-cecil-walter-wood (accessed 4 June 2026).