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Christ Church Cathedral Review
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Christ Church Cathedral
- Address: 635 rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, Downtown, Montreal, QC | Map It
- Phone: 514/843-6577
- www.montreal.anglican.org/cathedral
- Category: Religious Sites
- Location: Downtown
Fodor's Review:
This cathedral offers a series of free noontime concerts and organ recitals that are very popular with downtowners and visitors alike, and offers a bit of a respite from Ste-Catherine's crowds. Built in 1859, the cathedral is modeled on Snettisham Parish Church in Norfolk, England, with some distinctly Canadian touches. The steeple, for example, is made with aluminum plates molded to simulate stone, and inside, the Gothic arches are crowned with carvings of the types of foliage growing on Mont-Royal when the church was built. The stained-glass windows behind the main altar, installed in the early 1920s as a memorial to the dead of World War I, show scenes from the life of Christ. On the wall just above and to the left of the pulpit is the Coventry Cross; it's made of nails taken from the ruins of Britain's Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by bombing in 1940.
- Cost: Free
- Open: Daily 10-6
- Metro: McGill
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