Services

Service Sheet www.chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk/blue1/home.htm

Facilities

Guided tours: £3 per adult; parties by arrangement in advance

Shop: Located in the Cathedral

Website: www.chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: office@chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01245 294489

Music

Director of Music
Peter Nardone (since 1999)

Choir
Cathedral Choir of 22 boy Choristers, drawn from local schools, and 3 Lay Clerks, 3 Choral Scholars and several voluntary singers, who practice six days a week and sing the majority of services in term time. The Cathedral Consort (the girls' choir of 8 soprano Choral Scholars between 13-20) sings Evensong on Tuesdays and Eucharist on Feast Days. The Voluntary Choir of adult singers provide music during the Cathedral Choirs' holiday. There is an annual 10 day Music Festival in May.

Organ

There are two organs - a Nave organ and an Accompaniment organ

Nave organ

built by N P Mander in 1994 4 manuals 40 stops:

Pedal 7 stops, Choir 7 stops, Great 13 stops, Swell 12 stops, Solo 1 stop

Accompaniment Chancel organ

built by Manders in 1995 (from which much of the Nave organ can also be played)

2 manuals 24 stops:

Pedal 4 stops, Great 10 stops, Swell 10 stops

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D02906
npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D01021

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd Peter Judd (since 1997)

Bishop
The Right Revd John Gladwin (since 2004)

Building
The present church, which became a Cathedral in 1914, dates back to the 15th and early 16th centuries. The exterior walls are of flint rubble, inter-mixed with blocks of building stone and brick, whilst inside the honey-coloured limestone floor gives a sense of space and light. The colourful Nave ceiling was rebuilt early in the 19th century, whilst Peter Ball's fine sculpture of Christ in Glory, above the Chancel arch, is a present century addition. The fine peal of 13 bells date from the 12 cast in 1912 by the John Warner Foundry on a fabricated steel frame, and a 13th bell added in 1947.