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and certainly graces it withal. The corner-stone was laid in December, 1864, and for 

 more than twenty years the work of construction progressed at a fitful rate. At times 

 the community looked upon it as a work never destined to be completed, and it used 

 to be derisively said that one man and two boys were kept employed upon it merely 

 to rub the moss off the stones. The project has survived the shafts of sarcasm, and 

 the Cathedral now stands as an enduring monument of the pluck, zeal, and religious 

 fervour of the " Canterbury Pilgrims." The style of architecture is Norman, and the 



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VICTORIA BRIDGE, AND THE SUPREME COURT. 



edifice is stated to be a copy of the Caen Cathedral in Frankish Normandy. The hand- 

 some spire springs from a square tower, and carries a plain cross at its apex, while 

 the tower contains a peal of ten bells. The building boasts a fine mosaic pavement, 

 and the choral portion of the services is excellently performed by a highly-trained and 

 efficient male choir. 



On the opposite side of the Square stands, within a railed enclosure, the statue of 

 John Robert Godley, first agent of the Canterbury Association and virtual founder of 

 the city, and at its side the Post and Telegraph Offices, a large two-storey structure of 

 brick, with white stone facings, and with a square clock-tower over the main entrance. 

 The statue, it may be mentioned, was executed by Woolner, and is a capital likeness 

 of the original. To our right, the spacious printing establishment of the Lyttelton Times 

 newspaper attracts notice, and away to the left lie the busy commercial centres of High, 

 Hereford and Cashel Streets. On every side the streets strike off at regular intervals 

 to the Town Belt, with its poplar and other trees, and then we gradually lose sight of 

 them in a green perspective of more trees and gardens. Crossing Colombo Street from 

 the Cathedral, a short walk down Worcester Street, which strikes off at right angles 

 from it, brings the visitor to the near bank of the Avon, across which stream a hand- 

 some bluestone bridge springs in a single span, and leads direct to the Museum on the 

 other side of the road. 



Keeping, however, on the Cathedral side of the River, its banks are skirted past 

 Armagh Street, until Gloucester Street is reached, where the splendid new bridge carries 

 the thoroughfare over the rippling stream. Holding on his way, the traveller next 

 arrives at the intersection of Victoria Street, and passes over to the opposite bank by 

 the substantial Victoria Bridge, constructed, like the others, of bluestone, and its sides 

 closed in with neat iron railings. Across the road from it stands the Supreme Court, 

 approached by a line of two or three steps, whence one may pass under low archways 



