John Hawes

John Hawes

Monsignor John Hawes (7 September 1876, Richmond, England – 26 June 1956, Miami, Florida) was an architect and priest.

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Biography

He began training as an architect in London in 1892. In 1903 he was ordained an Anglican priest, after which he worked in The Bahamas. He later converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome on 27 February 1915, after which he was sent to Geraldton, Western Australia where he worked as a both a priest and an architect. In May 1939, Hawes sailed from Fremantle to The Bahamas, officially on a pilgrimage. Living in The Bahamas as a hermit, he died on 26 June 1956 in Miami, Florida, aged 79 and at his own request was buried in a cave located beneath his hermitage on Cat Island.[1]

Architecture Work

St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Geraldton
The Hermitage on the top of Mt. Alvernia, Cat Island, Bahamas

Monsignor Hawes' architectural work in the Mid West region of Western Australia is renowned.[citation needed] He was appointed Diocesan Architect and designed:

  • The Cathedral of St Francis Xavier, a Spanish Mission style cathedral in Geraldton. The completed building was officially opened in 1938
  • Nazareth House in Geraldton
  • The Cemetery Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Geraldton
  • The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and adjoining priest house in Mullewa[2]
  • Churches for many agricultural towns in the region; including Morawa, Perenjori, Yalgoo and Northampton
  • Only two private residences were designed - one being the homestead for Melangata Station north of Yalgoo, the other could be the White Tower in Bognor Regis, UK, built as a holiday residence for him and his brothers with a single bedroom on each floor and a parlour.

The Monsignor Hawes Heritage Trail is a tourist route which visits many of these buildings, some of which he also built.[3]

He also designed the Anglican Church of S. Christopher, in Gunnerton a small village in the North Tyne valley, Northumberland.[4] The building has recently been restored and now boasts a fine stained glass window by William Tillyer in the west end.

References

Further reading

  • Evans, A. G. The conscious stone : a biography of John C. Hawes Melbourne : Polding Press, 1984. ISBN 0-85884-376-5 (pbk.)
  • Taylor, John Between devotion and design : the architecture of John Cyril Hawes 1876-1956 Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2000. ISBN 1-876268-16-6
  • Peter Anson The Hermit of Cat Island London: Burnes & Oates, 1958.

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