St George's Cathedral is Perth's Anglican cathedral, a modest but dignified Gothic Revival church on St George's Terrace. The current building dates from the 1880s, though the congregation has worshipped on this site since 1845, making it one of the oldest Christian communities in Western Australia. The cathedral is built from Donnybrook stone, a warm cream-coloured sandstone quarried south of Perth that gives it a distinctly local character — less grey and austere than most English cathedrals, more suited to the bright light of WA.
Inside, the cathedral is peacefully cool on hot Perth days, with decent stained glass and a peal of bells that rings out across the CBD on Sunday mornings. The choir has a good reputation and Sunday services are open to anyone. The cathedral precinct connects to the Deanery next door, which is one of Perth's oldest surviving buildings (1859), and the whole ensemble gives you one of the better concentrations of colonial-era architecture in the city. It is not a grand cathedral by European or even eastern Australian standards, but it is well-proportioned and honest, and sits comfortably in its streetscape.