St. Dunstan's Basilica
St. Dunstan's Basilica | |
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St. Dunstan's Cathedral Basilica | |
St. Dunstan's Basilica | |
Coordinates: 46°14′01″N 63°07′31″W / 46.2336°N 63.1254°W | |
Location |
45 Great George Street Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island C1A 4K1 |
Country | Canada |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Website | stdunstanspei.com/ |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | François-Xavier Berlinguet[1] |
Groundbreaking | 1896, 1913 (reconstruction after fire) |
Completed | 1907 |
Specifications | |
Number of spires | 2 |
Spire height | 200 feet (61 m)[1] |
Administration | |
Archdiocese | |
Official name | St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic Cathedral / Basilica National Historic Site of Canada |
Designated | 1990 |
St. Dunstan's Basilica is the Cathedral of the Diocese of Charlottetown in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is named for St. Dunstan the Anglo Saxon saint from Glastonbury. The current stone structure was rebuilt in 1916 after a fire and is located on Great George Street, between the harbour and the Confederation Centre of the Arts.
The Basilica was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1990.[1]
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- 1 2 3 St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic Cathedral / Basilica National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- Peter Ludlow, The Canny Scot: Archbishop James Morrison of Antigonish' (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015)
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