Services

Service Sheet www.bradfordcathedral.co.uk/musiclists.html

Facilities

Entrance:

Disabled: Disabled parking & access

Guided tours: By arrangement; day time & evening Pilgrimages

Website: www.bradfordcathedral.co.uk

E-mail address: cathedral@bradford.anglican.org

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01274 777720

Music

Organist & Master of the Choristers
Alexander Woodrow (since 2012)

Choir

The Choir consists of two separate lines of boys & girls which are only combined for special services and the greater Festivals.  The majority of Sunday services are sung by one or other of the choirs.  Monday Evensong is always sung by the girls & men; Tuesday Evensong by either the boys or the boys & men.  THere is also a mixed adult Chamber Choir that sings sporadic services within and outside term time.

Organ

Originally William Hill 1904, rebuilt 1965 Hill, Norman & Beard, completely rebuilt by J W Walker 1977. In 1987 the Nave organ was dismantled and a new electronic Ahlborn Nave section installed in 1990.

4 manuals 72 stops:

Pedal 15 stops, Nave pedal 3 stops, Chancel 9 stops, Great 13 stops, Swell 13 stops, Solo 9 stops, Nave 10 stops 

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=A00542

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd Dr David Ison (since 2005)

Bishop
The Right Revd David James (since 2002)

Building

The present building, which became a Cathedral in 1919, dates back to 1458 with the Nave arcades. The perpendicular tower was built in 1508, whilst the exterior of the Nave, with its Gothic style main porch, was rebuilt in 1830. There is a William Morris window in the North Ambulatory.