Construction began in 1922 to a design by English architect Arthur Stansfield Dixon.

In 1978, the Cathedral was designated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government as Tangible Cultural Property No.

[2] A British Museum worker visited the partially completed Cathedral between the late 1980s and early 1990s.

After recalling that he saw that the original blueprints of the Cathedral were stored at the British Museum archives, he travelled back to England to obtain them.

He returned with them to Seoul, where he presented them to the Cathedral's Parish Office.