Soaring skywards with its bold array of coloured brick, stone and slate, St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral displays the confident spirituality that characterizes the best religious architecture of the High Victorian Gothic style Designed in 1892 by Perrault, and Mesnard of Montréal, St. Andrew's was inspired by the medieval cathedrals of Europe whose emphatic verticality and picturesque asymmetry greatly appealed to 19th-century Roman Catholic taste The wall patterns, created by combining building materials of different colours are a distinctive feature of the mature phase of the Gothic Revival style. Source: Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque on site. St. Andrew's Cathedral - La Cathédrale Catholique St. Andrew, 740 View Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. #travel #wanderlust #globalgypsy #portifcall #details #godisinthedetails #wandering #wander #thedevilisinthedetails #architecture #heritagebuilding #Cathedral #awesome #StAndrewsCathedral #church #CatholicChurch #adventurist #adventure #Victoria #BritishColumbia #Canada #YYJ (at Victoria, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdTpucnJxxU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=