1 St David's Cathedral, Hobart, Tasmania

 
Last updated:
16 August 1998

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St David


(Photographs kindly supplied by Steven Morris, a member of the Cathedral choir.)

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Organist:
Director of Music: Mrs. Ann Morgan (also the Director of Music at St Michael's Collegiate School).

The Cathedral Organist is Dr Rod Thompson.


Assistant:
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Organ:
hoborgan.jpg (21567 bytes)The organ is by J W Walker & Sons and is located behind the choir screen. It has 3 manuals and pedals: Swell (13 speaking stops); Great (15 stops); Choir (12 stops); Pedal (14 stops).

Choir:
The choir is mixed: 20 choristers (15 boys, 5 girls), 3A, 4T, 4B.

Boys are educated on scholarship at The Hutchins School, Hobart (oldest school for boys in Australia, established in 1846). Girls attend St Michael's Collegiate School for girls and their participation is voluntary. Girl choristers have only been introduced in the last 3 months. Layclerks are also voluntary singers (altos are female).

The repertoire of the choir resembles closely that of the mainstream repertoire of the cathedrals in England. Anglican chant is widely used.

For special occasions (when the Cathedral Choir can't be present) and to supplement its ranks, the Hutchins School Chapel Choir assists.


Services:
Sunday: Eucharist at 10am and Evensong at 5pm.

Recordings:
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Other
Information:
St David's Cathedral, Hobart is part of the Anglican Church of Australia and the only Anglican Cathedral in Tasmania. The foundation stone was laid by HRH Duke of Edinburgh in January 1868 (sic).

The Cathedral Cloisters and Bell Tower house a museum. Interesting to those in England are the stones mounted on the walls of the Cloisters from English Cathedrals and Abbeys as well as a few others around the world. I think when they first built St David's these stones may have been gifts:

  • Norwich Cathedral (11th C)
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  • Exeter Cathedral (12th C) from South Tower (this photograph shows how the stones are typically presented in St David's: the stone, a brass plaque and a photograph of the donor cathedral)
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  • Winchester Cathedral (11th C) from the original building
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  • Truro Cathedral (18th C) marble blocks from the choir pavement
  • Durham Cathedral (11th C) tracery
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  • Canterbury Cathedral (12th C)
  • Lichfield Cathedral (13th C)
  • Gloucester Cathedral (11th C)
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  • Chester Cathedral (16th C) part of the restored pinacle
  • St Paul's Cathedral, London, 2 stones
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  • Salisbury Cathedral (14th C)from the spire
  • Ely Cathedral (14th C)
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  • Hereford Cathedral (9th C)
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  • York Minster (13th C) from NW clere-story window
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  • Derby Cathedral, from the tower
  • St David's, Pembrokeshire (6th C) from the original cathedral
  • Westminster Abbey (15th C) from the North isle of Nave
  • Glastonbury Abbey (11th C) from the Nave
  • Tintern Abbey (1268) from the high altar step
  • Clerkenwell Priory Church (14th C) from the crypt chapel
  • Romsey Abbey, Hampshire (12th C)
  • St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (12th C)
  • Westminster Hall (15th C) Tudor Rose Stone

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