Services

Facilities

Shop: Shop in the newly restored 17th century Tythe Barn, now a Heritage Centre. Shop open daily from Easter to All Saints Day, mid-morning - 16.30

Website: www.breconcathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: admin@breconcathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01874 623857

Music

Organist & Director of Music
Mark Duthie (since 2007)

Choir
The cathedral choir consists of boy & girl choristers, from year 4-9, who sing with the lay clerks for the Sunday & Friday services. Recent fund raising is enabling a substantial endowment fund to underpin future developments of the music at Brecon. 15 new choristers were installed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in February 2008 and further links with Christ College, Brecon are being developed for the lay clerks.

Organ

1886 Hill & Son, rebuilt 1931, 1960 Hill, Norman & Beard, rebuilt 1973, 1995 Percy Daniel & Co

4 manuals 44 stops

Pedal 10 stops, Positive 6 stops, Great 13 stops, Swell 12 stops, Solo 3 stops

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00839

Cathedral at Brecon

Dean
The Very Revd Geoffrey Marshall (since 2008)

Bishop of Swansea & Brecon
The Rt Revd John Davies (since 2008)

Building
The cathedral was formerly a Norman Benedictine Priory built in 1093. After the dissolution it became the Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, being raised to cathedral status in 1923. It is set within a walled close whose buildings are the remains of the monastic buildings and a most remarkable range of buildings too.