Services

Sunday	Choral Matins 09.15; Cathedral Eucharist 10.30; Evensong 15.30
Monday-Friday	Evensong 17.30
Saturday	Evensong 15.30

Service Sheet www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/Music.htm

Facilities

Entrance: Free but suggested donation £3.50

Disabled: Wheelchair ramp via West door & level access via South Transept door

Guided tours: Daily April - September at 14.00 (11.30 Wednesdays), £3.50. Tours of the Tower also bookable

Refectory: Beckets Coffee Shop, in 14th century surroundings, situated in the Precincts, open Monday-Saturday 08.45-17.00; Sunday 10.30-16.30

Shop: Cathedral Gift & Bookshop, opposite the Cathedral West End, open Monday-Saturday 09.30-17.00

Website: www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: info@peterborough-cathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Administration 01733 343342
Tours 01733 355300

Music

Director of Music
Andrew Reid (since 2004)

Choir
The Choral Foundation consists of a boys' Choir, a girls' Choir, the Lay Clerks and a Voluntary Choir. The boys number 20 and sing two of the Sunday services and the weekday Evensongs except on Wednesday. The girls number 24, aged from 12-18, and sing one of the Sunday services and the Wednesday Evensong. The boys and girls all attend either the Peterborough High School or the Kings School. The 6 Lay Clerks sing all the services with the the boys and the girls whilst the Voluntary Choir, numbering 35 singers, sings Evensong on Saturdays and some services during Choir holidays.

Organ

The present organ was built by William Hill in 1894 in the classical style. It was situated in the North Triforium with the Choir Organ in the North Choir Aisle.

In 1930 it was rebuilt by Wm Hill, Norman & Beard and the console was moved to a gallery on the South side of the Choir Stalls. In 1981 Harrison & Harrison completed a major restoration but the organ was damaged in a fire in 2001 and subsequently rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 2005.

4 manuals & 87 stops

Pedal 21 stops, choir 12 stops, great 19 stops, swell 18 stops, solo 17 stops

www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/Music.htm

Organ specification www.npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D04648

Cathedral

Dean
Very Revd Charles Taylor (since 2006)

Bishop
The Rt Revd Donald S Allister (since 2010)

Building
The present building was begun in 1118. Built of Barnack stone it is in the Norman or Romanesque style throughout, except for the Gothic style West Transept and Great West Front Portico of 1237 with its 81 ft high arches. The building remains substantially the same except for the East End extension in the late Perpendicular style with its fine fan vaulting by John Wastall. The original painted wooden Nave ceiling of 1230-1250 survives, unique in the UK.