My City Day 189 Postcard 121

The unfinished Cathedral that is now used by the private school Royal St. George's College. A short history for those history buffs is below.

Archbishop Arthur Sweatman[8] of Toronto envisioned the Cathedral of St. Alban-the-Martyr replacing the de facto use of St. James' Church, whose parishioners were unwilling to compromise with their bishop over the use of their church as diocesan seat. St. Alban's was designated the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto in 1883 by an act of the Ontario Legislature, while still in the planning stages. The chancel & crypt of the projected building were completed, according to the plans of Richard Cunningham Windeyer[9], in 1891, but subsequent construction stalled and was only partially continued by Ralph Adams Cram and Vaux Chadwick in the first decades of the twentieth century.[10] The patronage of Sir Henry Mill Pellatt of Casa Loma and Edward Marion Chadwick[11] was essential to the project. The chancel became the school chapel when the College leased the St. Alban's property, at the suggestion of Bishop Fred Wilkinson.