We also stock a wide range of cards: sympathy, confirmation, first communion, wedding, baptism, ordination to both the diaconate and the priesthood, as well as birthday, “thinking of you”, get well, Christmas and Easter cards. We have a variety of prayer cards, including a traveller’s prayer card which we offer to every visitor to take away on their travels.

The Memorial Garden is available for the interment of ashes for those of any denomination.

Currently the interment fee is $1925 (inclusive of GST) and this is payable at the time of the making a reservation.

Christ Church Cathedral is a place where the people of Newcastle have gathered to worship, to celebrate and to grieve since the very first European settlement of the area.

Conceived by award winning landscape designer Darren Shearer, the Memorial Garden is a place for contemplation, peace and remembrance.

Ashes are placed in the garden at a service of interment conducted by a member of the clergy. A permanent record of interment is made and kept in the Cathedral records. Your certificate will be your record of this.

Names of those whose ashes are interred in the garden will be recorded in a Book of Remembrance displayed in the Cathedral and those names will be remembered each year in daily services.

An additional record will be kept through the Christ Church Cathedral Memorial Garden web page on the Cathedral website. If the family desires, the biographical details of those whose ashes are placed in the garden may be added to the website.

Souvenirs include tea towels, pens, postcards and CDs of our organ and choir plus a souvenir book about the cathedral and its history.

We stock a range of books including various translations of the bible and devotional books such as books of prayers, guided day by day readings and the APBA lectionary. There is a selection of theological books designed to appeal to a variety of readers. We have children’s illustrated bibles, prayer books and stories from the bible, including sticker books, and versions of the Easter and Christmas narratives. There are also books available about various aspects of the cathedral, including its military memorials and associations.

All profits help maintain the ministry and fabric of our beautiful Cathedral.

Shop Opening Hours:
Friday and Saturday 11am – 2.30pm
Sunday 11.30am – 3.00pm
closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
closed during services of worship. On special events such as Ordinations, we aim to have the shop open before and after the services. We can also arrange special orders and mail orders.

Contact us: [email protected]