5. Charlotte Parish Church Charlottetown was laid out in the 18th century to serve as a colonial capital. At its centre was Queen's Square, where - as Sarah Harris noted in one of her letters - Westminster was created in miniature. At its eastern end was the Parish Church, dedicated in honour of . Paul. In 1888 the parish built a handsome stone rectory on the Square to plans by William Harris , and in 1894 it commissioned him to design a new church to replace its old wooden building. Because it is the first of the churches of his mature period, and incorporates all the features that made him successful as an ecclesiastical architect, . Paul's is the most important of all William Harris 's buildings. His earlier church designs reflect English Gothic precedents, but at . Paul's he adopted elements of French Gothic Style out of acoustical and liturgical considerations. He made the chancel the same height and width as the nave, with an apse rather than a square end. The ceiling is groined, the better to distribute sound waves throughout the interior. The cells in the chancel walls are made resonant by thin sheets of maple and spruce separated by a narrow space, and the chancel floor is supported on a single post of juniper wood, corresponding to the sounding post in a violin. Harris, a musician himself, designed . Paul's as if it were a large musical instrument. The exterior stonework has recently been cleaned, and restored where necessary. The octagonal vestries were added as 1st World War memorials. Inside, the lights have been removed from the column capitals to holes cut in the ceiling, and the chancel floor extended. Note the red clay tiles in the sanctuary walls, made at the Hornsby Pottery, and the beautifully crafted pulpit.