Services

Facilities

Website: www.churchinwales.org.uk/monmouth/people/cathedral/

E-mail address: mark.soady@ntlworld.com

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01633 212077

Music

Organist & Master of Choristers
Christopher Barton (since 1979)

Choir
There are two choirs - the Cathedral Choir of 18 boy choristers and 9 men, Lay clerks and choral scholars and the Training Choir of 12 younger boys. The choir has made 2 cds recently as well as radio and television broadcasts. It is to tour in Germany in 2008.

Organ

Griffen & Stroud 1915, 1966 rebuilt Hill, Norman & Beard, 1997 Nicholson rebuild & new 4 manual console

4 manuals 45 stops

Pedal 10 stops, choir 5 stops, great 11 stops, swell 10 stops, solo 9 stops

Cathedral ot St Woolos, Newport

Dean
The Very Revd Dr Richard Fenwick (since 1997)

Bishop of Monmouth
The Rt Revd Dominic Walker (since 2002)

Building
The early wooden church was replaced by a Saxon stone church, which survives as the present Galilee Chapel at the West End. The Normans added the massive Nave with its 15th century 'Gothic Casquet'. In the early 1960s Alban Caroe extended the Chancel.