Services

Sunday	Sung Eucharist 11.00; Choral Evensong 18.00
Monday (Men only), Tuesday, Friday	Evensong 18.00
Thursday (Girls' choir)	Evensong 17.00

Service Sheet www.portsmouthcathedral.org.uk/services.htm

Facilities

Entrance: Free admission, but donation welcomed

Disabled: Wheelchair access to all parts of the building

Guided tours: Guides on duty in the afternoon

Shop: Inside the cathedral, open 10.00 - 16.00

Website: www.portsmouthcathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: music@portsmouthcathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 02392 823300
Visitors 02392 825500

Music

Director of Music
David Price (since 1996)

Choir
Consists of 24 boys, mostly educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, and 14 men (7 Lay Clerks and 7 Choral Scholars), who sing 7 services a week.

Organ

The original organ was damaged during World War 2 and afterwards was never adequate for the Cathedral's requirements.  A search in 1991 located an organ from Holy Trinity, Bolton which was transferred to Portsmouth and rebuilt by Nicholson in the old case.  It was completed in 1994 and a new Nave division added in 2001.

3 manuals 60 stops 

Pedal 10 stops, Choir/Solo 11 stops, Great 17 stops, Nave Great 9 stops, Swell 13 stops

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D02774

Cathedral

Dean
Very Revd David Brindley (since 2002)

Bishop
Right Revd Kenneth Stevenson (since 1995)

Building
Built originally as a chapel for the Lord of the Manor in 1180, it then became the parish church of St Thomas. After being damaged during the Civil War it was extensively rebuilt in the 17th century.  It became a Cathedral when the Diocese of Portsmouth was created in 1927 and plans to enlarge it were drawn up in 1932, but were not completed until 1990.