Services

Sunday	Cathedral Eucharist 10.30; Choral Evensong 16.00
Weekdays	Choral Evensong 17.30 (Mon Girls, Wed Men, Thu Boys)

Service Sheet www.cathedral.leicester.anglican.org/music_sheet.html

Facilities

Disabled: Wheelchair access at South door, ramps within cathedral

Guided tours: 2 hour walking tours by a Blue Badge Guide, £3.00

Refectory: in the Visitor Centre

Shop: in the Visitor Centre

Toilet facilities: in the Visitor Centre

Website: www.cathedral.leicester.anglican.org

E-mail address: leicestercathedral@leccofe.org

Telephone
Cathedral Centre 0116 248 7400
Tours 0116 286 2252

Music

Organist & Director of Music
Jonathan Gregory (since 1994)

Choir
The Cathedral Boys Choir & Cathedral Girls Choir are recruited from various local schools, whilst the Cathedral Songmen come from many walks of life, including several Choral Scholars from Leicester University.

Organ

Originally a Snetzler organ of 1744, new Walker organ 1873 incorporating Snetzler pipework. Rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison 1930 & 1973 and renovated 2003.

4 manuals 50 stops

Pedal 11 stops, Choir 7 stops, Great 13 stops, Swell 13 stops, Solo 6 stops

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04497

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd Vivienne Faull (since )

Bishop
The Right Revd Tim J Stevens (since 1999)

Building
The cathedral was originally a Norman church which was rebuilt as Leicester Abbey in the thirteenth century and then stripped bare at the Reformation. It was much restored by the Victorians with the tower and roof rebuilt and a spire and gilded rood screen added in the 1860s. The Great South Aisle dates back to the 1400s, whilst S L Pearson built the Vaughn Porch to the South door, with its famous 7 statues above the doorway. In the Chancel can be found a memorial stone to Richard III, killed at nearby Bosworth Field. It became a cathedral in 1927.