1915 – St. John’s Anglican Cathedral, Saskatoon, Canada

Designed by the local architectural firm of Thompson, Daniel and Colthurst. Gothic Revival in style with unusual apsidal transepts and finished externally in brick, Tyndall limestone, granite, with terracotta and Carrara provided by Doulton of Staffordshire.

“The exterior is of Redcliffe brick, with all ornament and tracery of buff terra cotta; the base of a local rough faced granite; the roof of shingles laid with a design in dark grey and red upon a light grey ground. The plan shows seating accommodation for eleven hundred, including the choir and chapel; is cruciform in arrangement with apsical transepts and chancel. The only portion of the building with basement is the chapel and the chancel, utilized for choir vestrys and heating chamber. Owing to the east end of the building being the main approach and the chief view, it was considered wise to place the spire at that end of the church, using the portion of the tower over the choir assembly room for the organ equipment.

The interior is lined with a buff brick harmonizing well with the terra cotta dressings. The rood-screen, pulpit, lectern, altar and reredos, together with the font, are of white Carrara terra cotta in a dull glaze. The finish of the roof shows a richly ornamented hammerbeam design in Georgia pine; the panelling, doors, seating, etc., being all in oak. The effect gained by flooring the chancel and sacristy 771 ‘P’ with nine-inch quarry tile in red with / / | a wide joint, is pleasing, when seen fa with the interior brick and white terra cotta. Wrought iron hopper ventilators are introduced in many of the windows, fixed directly into the terra cotta grooves similar to the glazing throughout.”
Construction, February 1915

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