1. NAME : TEH WEI HONG
STUDENT ID : 0323743
MODULE : Effective Public Communication [COM 30103]
SESSION : September, 2015
LECTURER : PERSIS RODRIGUES
SUBMISSION DATE : 19th January, 2016 (Tuesday)
PRESENTATION DATE : 19th January, 2016 (Tuesday)
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT: ORAL
PRESENTATION (PART 1)

2. St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne
St Paul's Cathedral is the
seat of the Anglican Primate
of Australia and home
church for Anglicans in
Melbourne and Victoria. It
was built in stages and is one
of the City of Melbourne's
major landmarks and it was
designed by William
Butterfield

3. St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne
St Paul's Cathedral is the
seat of the Anglican Primate
of Australia and home
church for Anglicans in
Melbourne and Victoria. It
was built in stages and is one
of the City of Melbourne's
major landmarks and it was
designed by William
Butterfield

4. Location of St Paul's
Cathedral
• Opposite Federation
Square, on Melbourne's
busiest intersection.
• 198-206 Flinders Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000

6. Historical background of St Paul's
Cathedral
(built between 1880 and 1931)
• On 22 January 1891 the Cathedral was consecrated,
although it was not the building we see today. The
construction of the spires did not begin until 1926, and then
to the design of John Barr of Sydney rather than using the
original design of an octagonal central tower and gable west
end towers of Butterfield. In the 1960s extensive work was
carried out on the exterior, and in 1989 a major National
Trust appeal to enable the restoration of the Cathedral’s
magnificent organ. More recently, and completed in 2009,
extensive restoration works were carried out under the
leadership of the Very Revd David Richardson, 13th Dean of
Melbourne, to the exterior and interior of the Cathedral.
• St Paul’s Cathedral is built on the site where the first public
Christian services in Melbourne were led by Dr Alexander
Thomson in 1836. Soon afterwards a small wooden chapel was
built elsewhere, and the area became a corn market until 1848,
when it was made available for the building of the bluestone St
Paul’s Parish Church. Consecrated in 1852, this Church was used
until 1885, when it was demolished to make way for the present
Cathedral. The decision to build on the site of the existing
church was made because of its proximity to the railway and
soon to be completed cable tramway service. The Swanston
Street and Flinders Street corner is one of Victoria's busiest
intersections today, and the Cathedral remains very much at the
heart of city life.

7. Historical background of St Paul's
Cathedral
small wooden chapel
corn market
St Paul’s Parish Church St Paul's Cathedral
Repair work on the spires
1836
1848
1852-1880 Present
1891

8. Historical background of St Paul's
Cathedral
small wooden chapel
corn market
St Paul’s Parish Church St Paul's Cathedral
Repair work on the spires
1836
1848
1852-1880 Present
1891

9. Historical background of St Paul's
Cathedral
(1880- Present)

10. Structure and layout of the St
Paul's Cathedral
• The Cathedral is built in the neo-
Gothic transitional style
• It was designed by the
distinguished English architect
William Butterfield, who was
noted for his ecclesiastical work.
• The foundation stone was laid in
1880.
• Mostly geometrical shape and
symmetrical
• The structure is soundness and
particularly is Spires

11. Structure and layout of the St
Paul's Cathedral

12. Types of ornamentation and
materials used
(Interior)
Chandelier
Wooden fittings
Dutch flower
painting in wood
Venetian glass
mosaics
Alabaster
Devonshire marble

13. Types of ornamentation and
materials used
(Exterior)
When William design the building he thought about three things in his design:
1. Beauty : The building should look lovely
2. Stability : The building would have to be strong and stable
3. Usefulness : The building would have to be big enough to fit in lots of people to worship God
Flowers Block of concrete Woods

14. Types of ornamentation and
materials used
(Outdoors)
It is now constructed in sandstone, the current
building replaced an earlier bluestone church,
built on the site where the first public Christian
services in Melbourne were led by Dr Alexander
Thomson in 1836.
But, woods could burn…
Sandstones

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