Cathedral Precinct News Today

Christchurch Bishop Michael Gielen has announced a preferred site for a Cathedral Precinct on the diocese’s Barbadoes Street site, and is seeking feedback through a three-month engagement process before he makes the final decision.

Conrad Gargett’s managing director Lawrence Toaldo has taken up the strategic role of Group Director – Health, Defence, and Heritage. Reputed for his ability to resolve complex briefs and transforming them into enduring architecture, Toaldo has led several significant projects including the Frankston Hospital Redevelopment in Victoria; major sustainment and capability projects for the Air Force, Army and Navy; and the redevelopment of the St. Stephen’s Cathedral Precinct in Brisbane.

Regeneration plans for four areas of Glasgow city centre which include a revamp of High Street station and a possible path through Glasgow’s…

Churches, classic homes are part of this new Trent Valley Archives walking tour.

Thousands of people will take part in parades through Glasgow streets over the next three months.

The City of Joburg has called on residents and interested or affected parties to make submissions on the city’s proposal to rename four streets in the Joburg CBD to honour the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and three other human rights activists.

Roze Hentschell, Professor of English and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, has been named Interim Chief Academic Officer of the CSU System for the 22-23 academic year.

The proposal to transform the Nelson City Centre received strong support in public submissions, with more than 70 per cent in favour.

It is named after Glasgow’s patron saint who brought the Christian faith to Scotland in the sixth century and is filled with works of art and artefacts exploring the importance of religion. The only centre of its kind in the UK and one of just a few in the world dedicated to looking at all religions, St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art closed due to lockdown last March. However, the venue is yet to reopen as it was listed by operators Glasgow Life as having no scheduled reopening da...

Jonathan Hooton A sign showing the former Black Horse pub on Wensum Street. - Credit: Jonathan Hooton He is known as the Norwich Pub Detective due to his fascination with all things to do with the citys famous pub legacy. And this week Jonathan Hooton explores how clues still present today shed light on two pubs pasts. Pub signs can sometimes be recycled and therefore saved even though the pub itself has long since disappeared. This has happened to the Black Horse in Wensum Street. The Black ...