Services

Service Sheet www.wakefieldcathedral.org.uk/?idno=986

Facilities

Shop: Bookshop open Monday-Saturday 10.00-16.00

Website: www.wakefield-cathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: admin@wakefield-cathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01924 373923

Music

Director of Music
Tom Moore (since 2010)

Choir
The Cathedral Choir consists of boys, girls and Lay Clerks. The boys, aged 8-13, are mostly educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School whilst the girls, aged 8-18, whose choir started in 1992, are recruited from various schools.

Organ
The present organ dates from the 1905 Abbot & Smith, the 1951 Compton and the 1985 Wood of Huddersfield organs. The Wood organ is a five manual: Choir, Great, Swell, Solo & Bombarde with 93 stops, played from the the main console in the North Choir. The main case was probably built by Renatus Harris, about 1710.

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00707

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd Jonathan Greener (since 2009)

Bishop
The Right Revd Stephen G Platten (since 2003)

Building
The first stone church was Norman but was then much rebuilt in the early 14th century. Considerable alterations were made in the 15th century - panelled roofs with carved and gilded bosses and a new tower surmounted by a spire. There was much destruction during the Reformation - statues, stained glass and Rood Screen - as well as the addition of a pulpit and galleries. In the 19th century George Gilbert Scott was brought in to repair much of this damage and neglect and later J L Pearson and his son Frank for the building of new Eastern Transepts.