NEW ZEALAND: CHURCHES FACE DEMOLITION AFTER QUAKE

CATH NEWS REPORT:

Screenshot of the Christchurch Basilica from a video on YouTube in February

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Christchurch's Anglican and Catholic cathedrals may have to be demolished after sustaining further damage in the latest earthquake to rock the New Zealand city, said an AFP report on the ABC.


The dome was one of a pair that crowned the renaissance-style building before the other collapsed in the February disaster.The 1905 Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament was facing demolition after arches supporting its surviving copper-clad dome were undermined in Monday's tremor, the building's management board said.

"(The damage) would have to be described as severe - it's suffered another good shake," management board chairman Lance Ryan told Radio New Zealand.

He said engineers were assessing the building and it would be a month before its fate is known.

The 130-year-old Anglican cathedral's huge stained-glass rose window shattered in the 6.0 tremor that struck Monday, compounding damage from a 6.3-magnitude quake in February that killed 181 people and toppled its spire.

Bishop Victoria Williams said the cathedral, a symbol of the South Island city, was structurally compromised when its western wall toppled Monday.

"We know some of it will have to come down because of the damage, but whether we have to take the whole thing down is still a live question," she told the Christchurch Press.

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