Christ Church Cathedral - Colombo - 1852

            Alutmawata Rd, Mutwal.
Located some distance from the centre of Colombo, this was the first Anglican Cathedral of the Diocese of Colombo. It is built in a very simple English Gothic Revival style of local brown stone and was consecrated by Bishop James Chapman, the first Bishop of Colombo. Sunday Church services were held in English (5 services) and in Sinhalese (1).

Bishop Chapman was also responsible for the establishment of the nearby St Thomas' College in 1851 and this church served the spiritual needs of those boys. St Thomas' remains one of Sri Lanka's elite boys' schools although it relocated to the more salubrious suburbs of Mount Lavinia in 1918. Mutwal, with its harbour works, shipyards, gasworks and nearby coaling depot in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral was never considered by many to be lofty enough for the British colonial establishment's principal place of worship and this structure has the feel of a country church, rather than a cathedral of a major city.

Taken in: Sri Lanka / Western / Colombo / Mutwal (show map)

Taken on: December 3, 2012

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