12. Peter's Rectory & Cathedral Furniture In 1904 the five St. Peter 's Cathedral Trustees* built a Rectory at (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 rood 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 20s, 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 order to safeguard its Anglo-Catholic character - it did not have at that time a parochial corporation of rector, wardens and vestry.