Services

Sunday	Sung Eucharist 10.30; Choral Evensong 16.00
Weekdays	Choral Evensong 17.30 (Wed Girls' Choir)

Service Sheet www.cathedral.ely.anglican.org/music/services_music_list.html

Facilities

Entrance: £5.50, but free on Sunday

Disabled: Wheelchairs available

Photography: Free but £2 for video filming

Guided tours: Every day. Tours of the Octagon £3.80, daily at 13.00, 14.15, 15.30 + 10.45 Sat

Refectory: Open all day, situated at the NW corner of the Cathedral; Almonry Restaurant in the High Street

Shop: Cathedral shop open Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00 (16.00 in Winter), Sun 11.45-17.00

Website: www.elycathedral.org

E-mail address: receptionist@cathedral.ely.anglican.org

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01353 667735
Guided Tours 01353 660344

Music

Organist & Director of Music
Paul Trepte (since 1990)

Choir
The Cathedral Boys' Choir consists of 22 boys who all board at The Kings School on half fee Bursaries. They sing most of the services with the 6 Lay Clerks and make regular overseas tours as well as many recordings. The newly formed Girls' Choir consists of 16 girls who all attend as boarders at the senior Kings School on Bursaries. They have their own Director and sing Wednesday Evensong and Sunday Eucharist from time to time.

Organ

The first Cathedral organ was built in 1685 by Renatus Harris on the Choir Screen. In 1850 this was rebuilt in the North Choir Triforium in a new case designed by Gilbert Scott. A virtually new organ was built by Harrison and Harrison in 1908, restored in 1974-5, rebuilt in 2001.

4 manual 80 stops:

Pedal 15 stops, Positive 8 stops, Choir 10 stops, Great 20 stops, Swell 15 stops,Solo 12 stops

http://www.elycathedral.org/music/the_organ.html

 

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=A00959

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd M J Chandler (since )

Bishop
The Right Revd Anthony J Russell (since 2000)

Building
The present Cathedral was began in the 11th century with much of it dating from the 13th century. The Lady Chapel dates from 1322 and the Octagon in the 1350s. After the Dissolution some of the monastic buildings became houses for the new Dean and Chapter, but only a few others remain such as the Great Gateway. Much restoration occured in the 18th century as well as from 1839 onwards under George Gilbert Scott.