Services

Sunday	Sung Eucharist 10.00; Mattins 11.30; Choral Evensong 15.30
Weekdays	Choral Evensong 17.30 Tue, Wed, Thu; 19.00 Fri

Service Sheet www.stedscathedral.co.uk/images/stories/pdfs/Current%20services.pdf

Facilities

Entrance: Suggested donation of £3.00

Disabled: Access to Cathedral, shop, refectory & toilets

Photography: Allowed

Guided tours: From 9th April at 11.30

Refectory: Located beyond the Cloisters, open November to March 09.30-15.00; April to October 09.30-16.30; main meals served from 12.00-14.00

Shop: Open Monday to Saturday 10.00-17.00 next to the main Cathedral entrance

Toilet facilities: Adjacent to the refectory

Website: www.stedscathedral.co.uk/

E-mail address: reception@stedscathedral.co.uk

Telephone
Cathedral 01284 75933
Visitor Officer 01284 748726
Refectory Manager 01284 748738

Music

Director of Music
James Thomas (since 1997)

Choir
The Cathedral Choir of men and boys sings the main services. They are assisted by the St Edmundsbury Singers (ladies), the St Cecilia Chorale, a youth choir and the Colts Choir of 30 boys aged 7-9.

Organ

Originally built by Walker in 1860, enlarged by Norman & Beard 1914, rebuilt by Nicholson in 1970

4 manuals 79 stops:  

Pedal 21 stops, Positif 9 stops, Choir 10 stops, Great 14 stops, Swell 16 stops, Solo 9 stops

http://www.stedscathedral.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=57

Organ specification www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=A00956

Cathedral

Acting Dean
Canon Michael Hampel (since 2009)
Canon Dr Frances Ward of Bradford Cathedral has been nominated Dean and will be installed on Saturday 16th October at 14.30

Bishop
The Right Revd. Nigel Stock (since 2007)

Building
Built as a Benedictine Abbey in 1020 to house the remains of St Edmund, it fell into ruin at the dissolution of the monasteries.  It was rebuilt in the 15/16th centuries and became a Cathedral in 1914. The new tower and North Transept were completed in 2005.  There is a fine peal of ten bells, cast in 1785, which hangs in the Norman Tower, still in their original frame.