Services

Facilities

Shop: Near the West door. Open Summer: Monday-Saturday 09.00-17.00; Sunday 10.30-17.00. Winter: Monday-Saturday 10.00-16.00; Sunday 12.00-16.00

Website: www.riponcathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: postmaster@riponcathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01765 603462

Music

Director of Music
Andrew Bryden (since 2003)

Choir
The Cathedral Choir consists of 24 boy choristers, 24 girl choristers and 6 Lay Clerks who sing six services a week during term time. The boy and girl choristers (aged 7-13) are recruited from local schools and sing three services each during a normal week. Occasionally they sing together for special services and events.

Organ

1878 T C Lewis, 1901 rebuilt Hill, 1913, 1926, 1964, 1972, 1987 Harrison & Harrison, 2000 Nave console installed

4 manual 59 stops

Pedal 14 stops, Choir 11 stops, Great 13 stops, Swell 14 stops, Solo 7 stops

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N07116

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd Keith Jukes (since )

Bishop of Ripon & Leeds
The Right Revd John Packer (since 2000)

Building
Only the Crypt of St Wilfrid's original 7th century church remains as a tiny chapel beneath the present building. The exceptional Early English West Front of this 12th century building, with its twin towers, dates from 1220. It became a Cathedral in 1836.