Building St Edmundsbury Cathedral in LEGO this Summer

St Edmundsbury Cathedral is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the building of its Millenium Tower – by inviting visitors to replicate that same tower in LEGO bricks.

Calling all LEGO enthusiasts! St Edmundsbury Cathedral needs you!

And to launch the initiative,  Horry Parsons, project manager during the Cathedral’s Millennium Tower build, returned to St Edmundsbury Cathedral with his great grandchildren to put a few bricks in place.

The LEGO Cathedral project was started in 2016. Once completed, it will be made of 200,000 LEGO bricks and is a replica of the Cathedral, including its Pilgrims’ Kitchen, the organ loft and even the toilets!

This summer, the build will focus on the Cathedral Tower – there are 11,668 bricks that make up the LEGO tower and a special ‘buy one get one free’ offer is currently available to encourage visitors to help the Cathedral complete the build this summer.

Horry worked on the life-size version of the tower from when ground was broken in September 1999 until it was completed in 2005. He evenextended his retirement so he could be the project manager for the duration of the build and came out of retirement to assist when the vaulted ceiling was added in 2010.

His great grandchildren, Harlie, 5 and Lilymaria, 4, joined their great grandad to carry on the family tradition of building Cathedral towers, even if their material was more plastic than stone.

Horry said,

“Being Suffolk born and raised, I’m very proud of the legacy of the Cathedral Tower and Millennium works. It’s a thrill that my great grandchildren can come today and recreate what we did 20 years ago in LEGO!”

Visitor Experience Manager, Sarah Friswell, said,

“We’d love to have the tower on the LEGO Cathedral completed by the end of the summer, but we need lots of help from our visitors and local community and right now we’re inviting people in while every pound counts for two bricks not just one!‘