Saint-Joseph cathedral of Noumea

The Cathédrale Saint-Joseph of Noumea was built of 1887 with 1897 with Noumea in New Caledonia thanks to penitentiary labor and plan of old condemned, certain Labulle. It will be bénite the October 28th 1890, inaugurated at All Saints' day following and devoted by Mgr Hilarion Fraysse which is then still only apostolic vicar of Noumea before the frontage and the bell-towers are entirely finished.

Plan

It is about a religious building following a plan in Latin Cross, long 56 m (5 spans with sexpartite vaults of warhead for the Nef, 2 right spans and 5 polygonal for the chorus) and a broad Transept of 36 Mr., following a south-western axis - the North-East. There are two 25 m high towers with stone balustrades at the top (in the beginning, a ridge sheathing in the form of flêches were envisaged but, because of the cyclones, this project was abandoned). If not, the two turns, the buttresses and the framings of bays are out of cut stones (enough typical the buildings built by the deportees), the other walls are out of hardcores lime plaster. The frame and the ribbed vaults are out of wood of kaori (coniferous of mining ground producing of massive coniferous timber, being able to be here white or red, red). Finally the roof consists of corrugated sheet.

A typical colonial cathedral

Placed in height compared to the road, it dominates the center town, it was built on bases carried out by excavation work of 1876 with 1887. It was classified with the Historic buildings the August 20th 1992, because of its sight, but also of its architecture which points out certain cathedrals of Latin America, for its Master furnace bridge carved in 1860 and inherited the Mission of Saint-Louis, the woodworks in tamanou (wood rather hard, pink brown, even red) of the chorus, the Chaire and the vaults, its stoups giant facts in real shells of giant Tridacne (crustacean generally called stoup besides), its carved Lutrin or its organ case.

External bonds

Card on the site Structurae.de
Card of the cathedral on the site of southern Province
Card of the cathedral on the site of the town of Noumea

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