Planning a trip to Christchurch and meeting an overseas urbexer named WildBoyz from the United Kingdom was always an exciting prospect, teaming up with an experienced explorer from overseas with a load of locations in England already under his belt! Little did I know how many amazing locations we would end up finding.
Exploring Christchurch was both exciting and emotional, a city I used to come on holiday to, now vastly changed by the devastating earthquake of February 2011.
One of the most breathtaking explores we did on this trip involved coming across this grand cathedral, opened in 1905 it had association with the Vatican and was considered to be the finest renaissance-style building in New Zealand. After the February earthquakes two of the bell towers on the front of the cathedral collapsed and have since been removed and stored in a secret location by the priests, some of the stone blocks that came down have also been removed and numbered for later restoration. The future of the cathedral is unknown and the cosmetic and structural damage of the building is intense, there are plans to demolish the building while leaving some of the facade as a remembrance.
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Fantastic location and photos!
Thanks man, amazing but sad place.
You can see how elegant it used to be, but now – you’re right – it looks a bit haunted….
How did you get entry? This is off limits to the public, did you go in with an engineer..?
Thats interesting…you deleted my comment, asking how you gained entry to this special and sacred place..? Why..?
Hi Maureen,
Thanks for your interest in these photographs, the comment hasn’t been deleted we are just waiting to hear back from the photographer who submitted these photographs to us.
All the best,
UC.
Thanks for sharing! Amazing photos!