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Carlisle and Newcastle cathedrals have said goodbye to their life-sized model sheep – part of the flock that has made up the Sheep Art Trail that

It’s a homecoming of sorts when Bristol Cathedral will host Bristol-based Luke Jerram’s Gaia from 15 October, for a special four-week-long series

Artist Luke Jerram’s work can be seen at a number of our cathedrals this Autumn – including his latest work, Mars: War and Peace which is coming

It’s a first at Rochester Cathedral this October when it hosts the premiere of Scriptorium: The Illuminated Histories, a new light and sound show

The first female Dean of Lichfield was installed at the weekend with a promise to care for the least and the lost and help build a better world

Salisbury Cathedral has launched a new film showcasing Gustav Holst’s The Planets to celebrate the composer’s 150th anniversary. The Planets: Out

Photo by Duncan Lomax, Ravage Productions. A new light and sound installation will illuminate York Minster this October to commemorate the fire

It’s not often a cathedral is filled with elephants but that’s how Lichfield Cathedral found themselves last night as they hosted a charity

Portsmouth Cathedral Awarded £118,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to Create New Visitor Experience Space Portsmouth Cathedral has

Video : St Albans Cathedral has announced the return of its cutting-edge Saints in Colour project. The project sees its famous Wallingford Screen

Eighteen hundred steel roses have just gone on display in Sheffield Cathedral to highlight the growing scale of youth homelessness. Steel roses

We welcomed not one, not two, but three new deans this September. And a dog. A new dean at Chichester, Lincoln and Worcester. New Dean at

Worcestershire Archaeology and the cathedral team have been preparing the ground for a new landscaping project to create  welcoming green space

The Revd Nontombi Tutu, Episocopal priest and human rights activist, daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will lead the inaugural Desmond Tutu

Portsmouth Cathedral is hosting the ‘Speak Their Name’ Hampshire and Isle of Wight Suicide Memorial Quilt. The quilt is a poignant

Salisbury, Ely and St Albans cathedrals will welcome all creatures great and small over the next few weeks for their annual pet services. All

Westminster Abbey will launch a new season, Voice and Verse on National Poetry Day next month celebrating poets and poetry with a series of

Westminster Abbey will open its doors next month for the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St Edward the Confessor. Westminster Abbey to welcome

Two apprentice stonemasons from Gloucester Cathedral have been awarded the prestigious Anne Cadbury Apprenticeship Award by the Honourable

Norwich Cathedral will today (Tuesday 10 September) host a special conference to celebrate Norfolk as it becomes the first UK member of an

As the season begins to shift so do the events in our cathedrals … and Hereford Cathedral will welcome back former chorister John Challenger for

Lincoln Cathedral has announced a programme of worship, organ recitals, concerts, family activities and late-night openings as part of the art

Coronation Celebrations, cultural initiatives, and sustainability efforts highlight a year of positive change. Statistics show recovery continues

St Paul’s Cathedral has unveiled a special season of events and services to mark the 60th anniversary of the day Dr Martin Luther King Jr

It’s September … which can only mean one thing – it’s the return of Heritage Open Days with hundreds of free events and experiences available in

Art inspired by the West window of Winchester, a project exploring the meaning of sanctuary with refugees in Newcastle, Peterborough announces

Archaeologists at Exeter Cathedral have found exciting new discoveries during their investigations in the east end of the historic building.

The People of London memorial unveiled to commemorate all those who died during the Blitz has just been reinstalled in the gardens of St Paul’s

A piper whose piper-father led soldiers onto the beaches on D-Day will play the bagpipes for The Longest Yarn, a wool art depiction of that

Wakefield Cathedral is preparing to host The Hatchling – part of Wakefield’s Our Year – a year-long project which aims to inspire

Southwark Cathedral is the latest cathedral to host textile artist Jacqui Parkinson’s Threads through Creation that tells the creation story in

Local artists will go on show in Guildford Cathedral from 10 September – 6 October. West Surrey Artists (Surrey 12) on show at Guildford

A new exhibition in St Albans Cathedral features 19th-century artwork that raises awareness of our fragile heritage. Holmes Winter – The

Inspired by the faces she saw on the coverage of the war in Ukraine, and determined to do something to express her anger, Cornwall artist Louise

The world’s oldest surviving slave song manuscript will form the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral next month. Oldest

Worcester Cathedral is celebrating an award of £20,000 from the Associated Worshipful Companies of The Mercers’, Masons’, Cooks’ and Broderers’.

Discover Cathedrals this Summer The AEC took its own message to heart this weekend with a trip to see what they could discover in our cathedrals

Winchester Cathedral has announced that a memorial statue of Jane Austen to mark her 250th anniversary can now go ahead. Jane Austen Statue by

TEAM GB are not the only ones going for gold this summer, our own Ely Cathedral has just been awarded the prestigious gold Eco Church Award in

Vicars’ Close smallest resident, Monty, gives the funding news a paws up! Wells Cathedral in £4.4m grant boost to save unique Vicars’ Close

Wells Cathedral is hosting the annual Wells Arts Contemporary, Carlisle and Portsmouth are hosting summer exhibitions by local artists, Chester

Not so sure what Exeter Cathedral’s Canon Treasurer had in mind when he took his running shoes to work in anticipation of meeting ultramarathon

A cyclist riding part of the Cathedrals Cycle Route which links all 42 Anglican cathedrals in England in one 2,000-mile cycle, has lost her

Monsters of the Sea, a Cathedral Big Wheel, a beach, a fox, a sheep, a host of family activities, organ proms, and pop-up cafes too – welcome to

Happy Yorkshire Day to our Yorkshire Cathedrals: Bradford, Ripon, Sheffield, Wakefield and York. Yorkshire Day celebrated York Minster will see

Birmingham Cathedral has issued an open call to creatives to create a new contemporary nativity set that will launch in December 2025. Artist

Lichfield Cathedral has reopened its central spire and reinstated its tower tours six years after Storm Desmond damaged its central spire and

Hereford Cathedral is celebrating its broderers, these unsung heroes who create, repair and restore its unique embroidery work In Prayse of the

The Pommie Pilgrims, who are currently walking to every one of our 42 Anglican cathedrals have arrived at Blackburn Cathedral on their mammoth

“Just to hear someone coming out of one of the showers and saying I feel human again. “It’s these simple moments of shared

Drum roll please … THANK YOU! We’ve reached 500,000. Over half a million of you have engaged with our Summer Cathedral Ceilings campaign

The late Magnum photographer, Peter Marlow’s ambitious photographic exhibition of all 42 naves of our English cathedrals reaches its halfway mark

July 19, 1924 marks a century since Liverpool Cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George and Queen Mary – an indication of its

Old met new when York Minster’s state of the art workspace created to house its team of stonemasons and heritage craftspeople was blessed in a

Inspired by Antony Gormley’s “Field for the British Isles’ artwork, over a thousand individual clay figures made by primary school leavers across

Caring for Creation: Truro Cathedral gets Bronze and Ely Cathedral hosts its third Green Fair as it goes for Gold! Truro Cathedral gets bronze!

A cherished reminder of Truro Cathedral’s past has been brought back into use for prayer and worship after a 12-month project of renewal. St

Gloucester Cathedral has received a huge boost to its organ fundraising campaign with the announcement of a £1million donation. A million-pound

The development and expansion of our musical ministry continues. Eighteen of our cathedrals have benefitted, from Carlisle in the north to Truro

Our cathedrals have been voted in the top ten per cent of all visitor attractions – thanks to you, the public. Tripadvisor Awards for

Peace is the theme for a series of special events and services to accompany the art installation, Peace Doves when it opens in Durham Cathedral

Sheffield Cathedral is taking part in a new and ground-breaking art exhibition which sheds light on South Yorkshire’s hidden racial history.

Norwich Cathedral’s Organ Reborn! 2024 Festival opened over the weekend with the sound of 120 singers from not one, but three cathedral choirs in

The Bishop of Chelmsford has announced that the next Dean of Chelmsford will be the Revd Canon Dr Jessica Martin. New Dean of Chelmsford

It was 2.30am on Monday 9 July, 1984 when fire alarms rang out at York Minster after lightning struck the roof. What happened next is the subject

Peregrine puppets join the Alban pilgrimage for the first time this year! DYK the word peregrine means pilgrim? Inspired by the hundreds of

Worcester Cathedral is celebrating after distinctions for two of its apprentice stonemasons and York Minster announces the launch of a new

The legendary British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor is bringing his visionary works to Liverpool Cathedral – the centrepiece of the cathedral’s

July will witness the unique healing power of music and song when explored in collaboration with those most vulnerable in our society with two

An exhibition of memorial quilts honouring those affected by terrorism is on display in Manchester Cathedral until the end of June. The Troubles

Canterbury Cathedral is the latest cathedral to offer Prayers of Love and Faith to same-sex couples already in civil partnerships or civil

Remembering Britain’s first Christian Martyr. Thousands of people are expected to join in the Alban Pilgrimage this Saturday. The annual

The theme for Refugee Week 2024 is “Our Home”. Home can be a place of refuge, a feeling or a state of mind. It can be found in smells, tastes and

Introducing our exciting Summer 2024 campaign, Cathedral Ceilings, Always Look Up. They’ve survived significant religious upheaval, two world

“It is our prayer that, even in the heat of the debate, we will treat each other with respect and kindness,” Archbishops of Canterbury and York

“Live feeds of peregrines are drawing bigger audiences than any Sunday congregation  — despite the odd complaint when they eat prey on

The King has approved the nomination of The Revd Canon Dr Stephen Edwards, Interim Dean of Worcester, to be appointed as the new Dean of

For Refugee Week 2024 cathedrals are hosting thought-provoking art installations, special services in partnership with local groups and

A community-created patchwork coat made up of the griefs, hopes and prayers for our climate emergency gathered en route to COP 26 in 2021, has

His Majesty King Charles III has announced he will continue as Patron of the Salisbury Cathedral Trust, the Lincoln Cathedral Fabric Fund and the

His Majesty the King has approved the nomination of The Right Reverend Janet Elizabeth McFarlane, Interim Dean of Lichfield and an Assistant

A spectacular dragon inspired by illuminated artwork in Rochester Cathedral’s treasured manuscript, Textus Roffensis and made with community

York Minster will mark the 30th anniversary of the first ordination of women as priests in the Church of England today (Tuesday 4 June) when the

“Volunteering in the Nave Choir gives me a sense of achievement, a sense of purposeful practice, a skill, and a fabulous new circle of friends

“Best seats in the house” Introducing Karen – volunteer live streamer at  Guildford Cathedral Thank you Karen! Live-streaming

In 2019, for the 75th anniversary of D-Day the foundations of a new memorial in Normandy was dedicated. The British Normandy Memorial was first

Bristol, Chichester, Durham cathedrals and St Davids Cathedral from the Church in Wales have all been named on Which?’s list of best UK days out

Today we’re highlighting three long-serving volunteers at Salisbury Cathedral. Meet volunteers Dudley, Rodney and Ben Dudley Heather has been

The week starting 3rd June is National Volunteers Week and we’re paying tribute to our unsung army of volunteers without whom our cathedrals

Clackety clack. Knitting needles have been busy. Two of our cathedrals are marking this historic anniversary of the D-Day landings in wool art.

“The Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 saw bravery and determination that turned the tide of the Second World War. With our service, we honour all

Women’s ministry continues to be celebrated at our cathedrals this year marking the 30th anniversary of the ordination of women into the Church

They may seem unusual names for peregrine chicks, but the public has spoken. The peregrine chicks at Salisbury Cathedral have been named. By the

“It is our prayer that, even in the heat of the debate, we will treat each other with respect and kindness,” Archbishops of Canterbury and

The light and sound creations of artistic duo, Luxmuralis are returning for a third year to Durham Cathedral with Space this autumn. Luxmuralis

New Arts Curator announced for all Cathedrals. English Cathedrals has launched a new partnership with a consultant arts curator who will offer

Carlisle Cathedral’s iconic starry ceiling project, Rest Under the Stars, is on tour and hoping to inspire other communities and parishes as it

A big funfair wheel will open in the historic grounds of Birmingham Cathedral this summer offering riders a bird’s eye view of the city and a

Listen. A chance discovery has uncovered, what is believed to be the earliest live recording of a Cathedral choir. Earliest known recording of a

“There is no finer thing a cathedral musician can do than to introduce people, of all ages, to the organ.” Sir Andrew Parmley, Chief Executive of