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Faith demands it of us. The Association of English Cathedrals is urging cathedrals to join the call for all churches to ring their bells on the

 “The success of this project is the way it draws different people together marvelling at how medieval stones speak to our very modern

Two hundred year old squashed mouse … and other treasures revealed. Salisbury Cathedral Library will celebrate the end of its National

And they’re back! Our trainee cathedral craftspeople have been able to resume face to face training this month – and first stop was York Minster

Number Ten Downing Street has today announced that Her Majesty the Queen has approved the nomination of the Right Reverend Dr Jonathan Frost,

Chelmsford Cathedral has become the second cathedral in the UK to achieve a Gold Eco-Church Award for its work in inspiring and encouraging

Peterborough Cathedral is to light up its famous west front in pink and blue  to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week. Peterborough Cathedral to light

Work has finally begun to restore and renew Leicester Cathedral and make it the very best it can be as a place of worship, heritage, pilgrimage,

From cycling to work every day to recycling more and using less water, more than 9,000 visitors to Dippy on Tour in Norwich Cathedral have made

Cathedrals across England are reporting a steep rise in visitor numbers. Here are just a few examples of how they achieving increased footfall.

The new Northern Saints Trails that tell the stories of the region’s saints and their local connections with the North East have been launched.

Preparations are underway for the return of Carlisle’s ‘City of Lights’ event this October. The event will feature lighting of the city’s key

Global Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions has opened at Chester Cathedral. Global Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions at Chester

Derby Cathedral is getting ready to open its doors this Friday evening (24 September), offering visitors the chance to see its treasures and

‘The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof’ (Psalm 24: 1).  Hereford makes amazing strides to COP26 and Eco Church status Earlier this

Salisbury Cathedral will celebrate the founding of its girls’ choir almost 30 years to the day since the girls sang their first Evensong with a

Worcester Cathedral is to establish a Youth Choir for young singers across the city and beyond – the first new choir to be launched at the

Westminster Abbey is getting ready to open its doors for the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St Edward the Confessor next month.  Westminster

Inspired by the Sky Arts TV programme of the same name that proved such a hit during lockdown, Lincoln Cathedral held its own Artist of the Year

Gloucester, Southwell and Salisbury Choirs are all in the news and making history. History has been made as girl and boy choristers attain

The world is now waking up, albeit very belatedly, to the fact that we are in an unfolding climate crisis. In the last few weeks, a spate of

Candlelight will transform Sheffield and Peterborough Cathedrals when visitors are invited in to experience these sacred spaces as Cathedrals At

They set off in March to walk the 408 miles that will take them from St Davids Cathedral in Wales to Glasgow in time for the UN Climate

Where did your summer holiday take you? Lots of people have been taking the opportunity to #DiscoverCathedrals. Hundreds of thousands of you have

Drum roll please … new dean announced – all the way from New Zealand … via Canterbury Cathedral HM The Queen has named The

It’s a little over a month to go before world leaders meet in Glasgow for COP26 – the UN Climate Change Conference. COP26 and the Season of

Flower Festival returns to Winchester Cathedral with striking floral arrangements that reflect on the effect of the pandemic and celebrate the

An online medieval bake off, how to cook and eat like the monks, Portsmouth’s edible history as a major trading port, a foraging walk round

Their cycling jerseys read: So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is

Visitors are invited out of this world with the immersive sound and light installation, SPACE VOYAGE which can be seen at Worcester and Rochester

More than 100,000 people have visited the Natural History Museum’s Dippy the dinosaur who took up residence in Norwich Cathedral’s Nave in July.

The west front of Peterborough Cathedral was transformed this Bank Holiday Weekend by a new state-of-the-art LED lighting system. New LED system

Gloucester Cathedral has welcomed over 3000 children through its doors since launching its Summer Challenge Family Trail just three weeks ago.

English Cathedrals joins The Children’s Society in calling for change. Good Childhood Report 2021 – Calling for Change Following the launch

The scaffolding is in place, the Cathedral Works Department are on hand, and all eyes are on one empty niche on the West Front of Wells Cathedral

Following in the footsteps of the ancient monks who founded them, St Edmundsbury Cathedral today opened its doors to host the East Anglian Beer

Art is returning to Bradford Cathedral in a joint project with its neighbours, Kala Sangam, that sees a new exhibition featuring work created

They might be at other ends of the country (almost!) but Ripon and Gloucester Cathedrals are on the same page when it comes to pilgrimage and are

Sculptor Peter Eugene Ball’s final exhibition, appropriately named Farewell To All That, has opened in Southwell Minster which so inspired him as

All Creatures Great and Small: A Service of Blessing for Animals at Worcester Cathedral. Pets joined the congregation at Worcester Cathedral on

New research reveals cathedrals’ contribution to local economies & communities “Cathedrals stand at the heart of their communities and

Visitors on foot are being asked to test walk the routes leading to every one of our Cathedrals Walk this way – to be a Pilgrim Pioneer

Summer in our cathedrals … you want more? You’ve got it! Science and creation – the theme for summer 2021 in our cathedrals.  Lichfield

Wakefield Cathedral is getting ready to host Gaia, the 7-metre replica of Earth by artist Luke Jerram, part of the city’s Festival of Earth

Hundreds of paper leaves with messages of hope have been created by schoolchildren across Worcestershire in response to a new art installation

Bradford Cathedral will welcome the Queens’ College Chapel Choir from Cambridge for a very special one-off lunchtime recital today

Families, children and schools across York and beyond were invited to take part in the Kibo Cranes project. Hundreds of paper cranes have taken

It was inspired by his time living in Bristol, so it is fitting that Luke Jerram’s touring artwork, The Museum of the Moon will land in Bristol

It’s been a long time coming, but next week will see the re-opening of a renewed Newcastle Cathedral – re-fashioned and refreshed to be a

The public green spaces within Peterborough Cathedral’s Precincts are undergoing a makeover thanks to a £60,000 grant from the Cambridgeshire and

It was used as a Covid vaccine centre, helping to vaccinate thousands of people – now Lichfield Cathedral will be transformed by an

Government rules on Covid restrictions were relaxed this month and that meant more and more people returned to their discover cathedrals. July

The Oswin Project, a Northumberland-based charity that gives second chances to carefully selected individuals who have been in prison, will open

Green is the colour as Ely Cathedral gets ready to hold its inaugural Green Fair this weekend – less than 100 days before the UK hosts the

BREAKING NEWS: The Dean of St Paul’s the Very Revd David Ison, has announced he will retire in September 2022. The Very Revd Dr David Ison says

The Dean of Bradford’s final service saw the whole cathedral choir come together for the first time since lockdown for their (first and) last

For two nights only – Thursday 29 July and Friday 20 August – visitors can experience for themselves the unique beauty of this medieval

Schools Out for Summer!! Cathedrals are offering a summer of family fun with a wide range of projects including activities, tours, outdoor

Summer’s here … what will you discover? English Cathedrals take you to the moon and back to earth by way of dinosaurs – or rather  most famous

Trains are running through the nave of Chester Cathedral this summer – thanks to the support of celebrity record producer and lifelong railway

Exeter Cathedral welcomed their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall

It’s all go at Worcester Cathedral this week as they get ready to host the Three Choirs Festival. Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester –

Truro Cathedral choristers raised £8,434, nearly 70% more than their original £5,000 target – which will enable Unicef to provide over

A keen cyclist and canon missioner at Southwark Cathedral is getting on his bike to ride the length and breadth of England as a prayerful journey

The Foundry opens this Friday and tells the story of how Sheffield has become known as the City of Steel and the people behind it. It was founded

After months in lockdown … get ready to walk on the moon at Peterborough Cathedral Walking on the moon, dancing on the moon and all Safe in

Are you ready to be roused and uplifte? I think so! Southern Cathedrals Festival has a digital makeover. It’s a first for the choirs of

This 85ft Jurassic giant has been unpacked and painstakingly re-assembled in the nave of Norwich Cathedral. In photos: 16 crates, 356 bones, one

It’s coming home … Not that ….(but we want that to come home too!!) but the baton that has been passed Olympic style between every

New deans announced for Hereford and St Albans. Hereford made history today with the announcement that the Revd Canon Sarah Brown has been

Looking down and celebrating the humble dandelion is the subject of an art exhibition celebrating our urban diversity that opens in Wakefield

Just in case you missed them….here are Peterborough Cathedral bellringers ringing a quarter peel to say thank you on NHS, Social Care and

In the last full week of the relay the route turned finally turned north again, with over 1,600 miles covered. Cathedrals Cycle Route. How Week 5

We started the month saying a big thank you … Art installations, reflective memorials to the pandemic, the Knife Angel, thousands of young

Britain’s first saint and the city’s namesake led a procession to celebrate his story as St Alban’s Cathedral’s Alban Pilgrimage returned in

“Lichfield Cathedral is here because Chad was here – he was the reason for the journey.” The Very Revd Adrian Dorber, Dean of

In the toughest week so far, the CCR relay bike ride hit the far south-west with 1, 231 miles ridden. Rain and Rainbows this week on the

Ancient graffiti at Chichester brought back to life. They were carved deep into the cathedral walls hundreds of years ago, now this ancient

He was part of the team at Elizabeth and David Emanuel’s which made THAT DRESS for the wedding of the late Princess Diana to HRH Prince Charles

Ely Cathedral is hosting the glass sculpture, Solace, in its Lady Chapel as a reflective memorial to the pandemic. The 10ft high exhibit is made

The awards singles it out as a beacon of good environmental practice for churches addressing the climate crisis. Salisbury Cathedral is the first

Summer 2021 exhibitions of Hope and Resilience taking place at Exeter, Portsmouth and Worcester Cathedrals. What will you discover? Art in

A beer specially brewed for Lincoln Cathedral will be launched and available for sale to mark the opening of the cathedral’s new cafe and shop

This week they hit the halfway mark – with 893 miles ridden! It was Hodge the Cat who was centre of attention for our intrepid cyclists on

Moon inspired worship, folk music, a capella choral music, a little known Haydn opera, Wallace and Gromit, Royal astrologists and beer and cheese

The Bears are coming … If you go down in the city today, you’re sure of a big surprise … because The Bears of Sheffield is coming and

Restrictions? What restrictions! Worcester Cathedral Choir take to the gardens to rehearse for Three Choirs Festival Restrictions on singing is

Only three weeks to go before visitors can finally see the Natural History Museum’s Dippy the Diplodocus on tour when it opens in Norwich

York’s annual report makes for hard reading  York Minster in the time of Covid: Annual Report Published “Covid has changed the world and

It is the latest in a long line of church and monastic communities to turn its hand to brewing – and the third Church of England cathedral to

8 cathedrals: 305 miles: Sunshine all the way! We’re in London today for the next legs of our relay on the inaugural Cathedrals Cycle Route

Chichester Cathedral is marking Refugee Week this week with Tears of Joy, an exhibition of artworks created by young asylum seekers and refugees

It has rested on the altar of saints and the graves of kings – but it was inspired by someone much closer to home – the US President, Joe

York Minster is inviting composers to write a new piece of music to celebrate the return of its Grand Organ, following the completion of a

This 27ft statue built from 100,000 confiscated knives and blades by sculptor, Alfie Bradley will remain in place outside the West door of

Truro Cathedral has announced a programme of events to help us think about the climate emergency and the impact the pandemic has had on all our

The sun shone for the first week of the national relay to launch the new Cathedrals Cycle Route – and no-one dropped the baton! Cathedrals Cycle

Thousands of young singers from 27 countries will join a Sing2G7 zoom from Truro Cathedral this Wednesday to put their voices together to send a

In just 26 days, with around 1650 bike miles in the saddle, sometimes facing the extremes of torrential rain, hail, freezing cold and baking

Exeter took advantage of the building being closed to visitors due to the coronavirus restrictions, to preserve the windows in the cathedral’s