MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL
ENGLAND
PAUL SCOTT
SATELLITE VIEW
Manchester Cathedral is within easy walking distance from the city and on a free bus route. It sits at the North end of Victoria Street and alongside the canal. it is essentially rectangular in shape with the main axis facing geographical east-west. There is therefore no need for us to distinguish between geographical and liturgical directions.
We shall begin our exterior investigation near the West tower and progress in a clockwise direction past the North Porch, around the East end with its extending Lady Chapel, around the offices at the Southeast corner, and back to the North Porch and Tower. We shall then enter the Cathedral through the South Porch.
Manchester Cathedral has a very wide nave and lacks the traditional cruciform structure often found in cathedrals.Historically the side walls of the nave were lined with chapels, several of which are named in the above plan. The side walls delineating these chapels have now been removed. In exploring this Cathedral we shall enter by the South Porch, explore the tower base and foyer area at left, then the nave, Jesus Chapel, Chapter House and remaining chapels, finishing with the Choir and Sanctuary.
There are many fine aspects to this Cathedral.
Some historical notes are included in the main text, but a brief history of the Cathedral is also given below. If you want to begin the tour of the Cathedral immediately, tap or click on START .
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HISTORY
[Wilipedia]
Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city’s parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre. The former parish church was rebuilt in the Perpendicular Gothic style in the years following the foundation of the collegiate body in 1421. Then at the end of the 15th century, James Stanley II (warden 1485–1506) was responsible for rebuilding the nave and collegiate choir with high clerestory windows. He also commissioned the late-medieval wooden internal furnishings, including the pulpitum, choir stalls, and the nave roof supported by angels with gilded instruments. The medieval church was extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and again following bomb damage in the 20th century. The collegiate church became the cathedral of the new Diocese of Manchester in 1847, and is one of fifteen Grade I listed buildings in Manchester.
A fuller history of Manchester Cathedral can be found at the Wikipedia site with link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Cathedral
