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Christ's Church Cathedral, the cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara, is located at 252 James Street North, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Christ's Church Cathedral home page )〕 Built in 1835 (but see further below), it predates the existing Anglican cathedrals of Toronto,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome )〕 Kingston,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome )〕 London, Halifax,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Cathedral Church of All Saints )〕 Fredericton〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton )〕 and St. John's〔(The Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist )〕 and as such is the oldest extant Anglican cathedral in anglophone Canada and the second oldest in all of Canada: only Holy Trinity Cathedral in Québec City predates it.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cathedral of the Holy Trinity )〕 ==Construction history== The building has an unusual construction history. Originally a stuccoed wooden Palladian-Baroque structure designed by Robert Charles Wetherall,〔Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, ''Hallowed Walls: Church Architecture of Upper Canada'' (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1975), pp.87–88.〕 it was incrementally transformed into stone Decorated Gothic, initially to an 1848 design by William Thomas, with Thomas’s chancel and the first two bays of his nave being added to Wetherall's existing wooden church, the resulting hybrid being dubbed “the humpback church.”〔MacRae and Adamson, pp.148–49.〕 The stone gothic nave was completed to a further design by Henry Langley (the architect of some 70 Ontario churches, including Metropolitan United Church, Toronto and the bell tower and spire of St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto (Roman Catholic))〔MacRae and Adamson, pp.168, 171, 174.〕 in 1876,〔http://www.waynecook.com/ahamilton-wentworth.html Historical Plaques of Hamilton-Wentworth〕 the original wooden portion having been demolished in 1872 to clear room for it〔MacRae and Adamson, p.90.〕 and, ''inter alia'', the chancel extended in 1924–25.〔 Meanwhile, Thomas, in a state of indignation over the perverse use to which the Anglicans had put his design, took it to the Presbyterians, who built the still-standing St Paul’s Church to Thomas’s plan for Christ’s Church.〔MacRae and Adamson, p.149.〕 Christ's Church has ornately carved west doors and fine stained glass windows. ==Music and arts== The Cathedral is a notable arts, concert, recital and recording venue in Hamilton; its Gallery 252, operated by the Cathedral’s arts committee, mounts monthly exhibitions of oils, pastels, charcoal drawings, photography, silk screening and stitchery as a means of introducing to the public artists not yet sufficiently established for commercial galleries. Since the spring of 2008, the New Harbours Music Series has organised free public concerts which coincide with the monthly artcrawl on James street, including performances from Polmo Polpo, Orphx, Michael Snow, Slither, Steve Hauschildt, Dirty Beaches, Slim Twig, Gasoline Gathers Hands Gathers Friends, Sun Circle, and Jeremy Greenspan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christ's Church Cathedral (Hamilton, Ontario)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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