1864: Christchurch Cathedral
September 16, 2018
By AHNZ
Well said, Christchurch Cathedral is a monument. The trouble is that we don’t even make our own monuments any more in this culture. We prosthelytise and protest for someone else (the government) to do it.
And were that to happen, the state earning our achievements for us and rewarding our tantrums, then it would be a monument now to this no matter what the plaque read.
1864 is when construction first started, an easier point to date than when it was finally up and running. The following video has more good history telling…