Services

Sunday	Sung Mass 09.30 (Cathedral Music Group); Sung Mass 11.30 (Cathedral Choir during term time); Choral Vespers 17.00 (3rd Sun of month)
Weekdays	Choral Vespers 18.30 Wed (term time)

Service Sheet www.brentwood-music.org.uk/

Facilities

Entrance: Admission free

Disabled: Via car park

Photography: Permitted but not during services

Shop: Sunday after 9.30 & 11.30 services

Website: www.cathedral-brentwood.co.uk

E-mail address: cathedral@dioceseofbrentwood.org

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01227 265235
Cathedral Music Office 01227 265288

Music

Master of Music
Andrew Wright (since 1982)

Choir

The Cathedral Choir, founded in 1984, consists of 20 boy Choristers drawn from local schools, Lay Clerks including Choral Scholars. The Gentlemen also sing with the Cathedral Choir Ladies' Consort.

The Cathedral Girls' Choir, founded in 2007, comprises 20 members.

Organ

Originally built by Alfred Hunter in 1881 for St. Mary-at-Walls, Colchester and rebuilt by Hill, Norman & Beard in 1931. When the church was closed it was offered to the new Cathedral in 1991. Completely rebuilt and restored by Percy Daniel of Clevedon and restored in 2002 to include additional pipework voiced by Dr David Frostick. The Cathedral architect, Quinlan Terry, designed a fine classical case for it.

3 manuals 48 stops:

Pedal 13 stops, Positive 10 stops, Great 12 stops, Swell 13 stops.

Cathedral

Dean
Monsignor Martin Boland (since 2009)

Bishop
The Right Revd Thomas McMahon (since 1980)
Vice-President of Friends of Cathedral Music.

Building
The new Cathedral of 1991, designed by Quinlan Terry in the classical style of the Early Italian Renaissance combined with Christopher Wren's English Baroque, incorporated part of the Gothic Revival church of 1861. It has a North elevation of 9 bays each divided by Doric pilasters broken by a huge half-circular portico. The walls are of Kentish Ragstone with Portland Stone capitals & columns, topped by an octagonal lantern.