Ely Cathedral The relief scenes were built into the wall, so each face or statue was individually hacked off, but leaving many finely carved details, and numerous puzzles as to what the original scenes showed. After the reformation it was redeployed as the Parish Church (Holy Trinity) for the town, a situation which continued up to 1938. The central octagonal tower, with its vast internal open space and its pinnacles and lantern above, forms the most distinctive and celebrated feature of the cathedral. However, what Pevsner describes as Ely's 'greatest individual achievement of architectural genius' came about through a disaster at the
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Gualeguaychú of Cathedral on June 29, 1957, through the bull "adoranda Cuandoquidem" of then Pope Pius XII. The cathedral is located on San José Street 25. It has the shape of a Latin cross and an octagonal cupola on the cruise. Eclectic style, which was the mainstream of the time, has beautiful architectural lines and has a neoclassical facade with a portal with columns crowned by a low triangular pediment and flanked by two towers. Each bell tower is crowned with a small elongated dome, crowned by a cross. It preserves among other treasures, an image of the Our Lady of