St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne was designed by William Wardell for Bishop James Goold and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. Charles Hansom designed an earlier church, of which only the south aisle was built. The infobox gives 1858 to 1939. The text says work began in 1851, Wardell's foundations were laid in December 1858, the cathedral was consecrated in 1897 and the spires were completed in 1939.
The article calls the style Gothic Revival, based on late 13th-century English Geometric Decorated Gothic. It is bluestone. The cathedral is 340 feet (103.6 m) long and 185 feet (56.4 m) wide across the transepts, and the central spire is 344 feet (105 m) high.
It became a minor basilica in 1974, Pope John Paul II visited in 1986 and a restoration ran from 1992 to 1997. It is an active Catholic cathedral and the seat of Archbishop Peter Comensoli. The article gives no hours.
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