St. Andrew’s Cathedral Community Garden
Posted on September 28, 2023
Filed under Sydney Diocese
Dean of Sydney Sandy Grant writes in the Cathedral newsletter about plans for a new ministry space at the Cathedral:
“Friends in Christ, it was a pleasure to show the site and plans for the Cathedral Community Garden to many in-person attenders last Sunday. It was obvious that seeing it ‘from the inside’ as it were is really helpful to imagining what an excellent outdoor ministry space it could be for the Cathedral and for the community.
For example, you could easily imagine a BarBQ there in the summer shade, and how much easier it will be to welcome people into the Chapter House, as well as improved wheelchair access to the Cathedral proper.
To remind you, the project will provide a community garden that will
- adorn one of the city’s premier civic and heritage precincts,
- provide rare and valuable deep-soil CBD green-space,
- be often open to the public,
- add valuable outdoor ministry space to the Cathedral ministries, such as Cathedral Kids, ESL and community chaplaincy for the needy,
- and be available as an educational space to SACS and Gawura (Indigenous) School as desired.
Completing the Garden will also remove the eye-sore of a building rubble site that has stood unusable behind hoardings next to our beautiful Cathedral for well over two decades.
Let me put all that into a bit of historical context…”
– Read about the plans at the Cathedral website.
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