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Chester Cathedral

  • Categories: Architecture, Decorative art, Religious Sites
ISBN: 978 1 78551 079 3
Size: 250 x 210 mm / 9¼ x 8¼ in
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
In association with: Chester Cathedral
Date published: March, 2017
UK £10
/ US $14.95

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  • An informed and succinct guide to a fascinating building
  • Specially commissioned photography

Description

Chester Cathedral was a monastic church of the Benedictine order for over 450 years before it was closed during Henry VIII’s reformation of the Church in England, and immediately re-opened as the cathedral of the new diocese of Chester. As a result it retains to this day much of the flavour of a monastic institution, with a fine Norman refectory, a superb Early English Gothic chapter-house and a cloister garth which forms a tranquil oasis in the heart of the busy modern city.

Originally dedicated to a local Saxon saint, Werburgh, Chester became an important centre of medieval pilgrimage and St Werburgh’s shrine still stands in the cathedral. The cathedral’s fourteenth-century choir stalls are among the finest in the country, featuring a riot of imaginative wood-carving. Its external appearance today, however, is largely the result of major Victorian restoration work by Sir George Gilbert Scott, much needed as the soft local stone has not worn well, while modern architecture is also represented by the new Song School, opened in 2003.

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