Heritage Value
The building is registered with the National Trust, State Register of Heritage Places, the Register of the National Estate and is on the City of Perth's Municipal Heritage Inventory.
In accordance with the Heritage Council of Western Australia's assessment the Cathedral has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:
- it is the first and the oldest Roman Catholic church in Western Australia;
- the place is associated with the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church and the first religious orders in the State; and,
- the place is held in high regard by present day Catholics.
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Famous quotes containing the word heritage:
“It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“Flowers ... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children—honoured as the jewellery of God only by them—when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.”
—Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)