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In 1904 the five St. Peter's Cathedral Trusteest built a Rectory at 21 Fitzroy Street (below) to plans by William Harris. Apart from the loss of a "piano" window on the west side and the addition of a garage the house remains very much as it was built.

Inside the Cathedral William Harris, while not its architect, has contributed much to its furnishing. He designed the mod or chancel screen while still an apprentice in Halifax in 1873, and the reredos, or altar screen (below left), with its characteristic Harris arched . ,, ,- niches for statues, the pulpit (below right), and the stalls in the choir are his work

Hanging in the sacristy is the portrait Robert Harris painted while he was still in his early 205, and as yet without formal artistic training, of the Cathedral's founder, Bishop Hibbert Binney. Another portrait, of the Reverend George Hodgson, who died in 1884, is in storage at the Confederation Centre Gallery awaiting restoration.

‘Because it was a Cathedral - and in orderto safeguard its Anglo-Catholic diaman- - it did not have at that time a parochial corporation of letter, wardms and vastly,