Chester Cathedral
The Chester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Chester , England. It has been the seat of the Bishop of Chester since 1541 .
The cathedral is 108 meters long and 23 meters wide with a tower height of 39 meters. It belongs to Anglo-Norman architecture , but also has Gothic elements.
history
The city of Chester was an important place as early as Roman times (as Castra Deviana ). There is a presumption that there was already a basilica in the city at that time . A Benedictine abbey was founded in 1093, and the oldest parts of today's cathedral come from this abbey. The abbey church was not Chester Cathedral at the time.
In 1538, when King Henry VIII dissolved the English monasteries , the abbey was closed. Three years later, in 1541, the abbey church was elevated to a cathedral by order of the king. If the abbey was still dedicated to the holy Werburgh, the city patroness of Chester, the cathedral has now been rededicated to Christ and the Virgin Mary.
The cathedral has been restored several times since the 19th century, and a free-standing tower was built next to the cathedral in the 20th century. In 1922, a memorial to soldiers who died in World War I was unveiled in the cathedral . Since 1955 the cathedral and the associated monastery buildings have been classified as Grade I buldings .
Burials
- Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester († 1101), was first buried in the cemetery of the abbey, then the chapter house reburied
- Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester († 1129)
- Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester († 1153) and his wife Maud of Gloucester
- Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester († 1181)
- Ranulf de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester († 1232)
- Ranulf Higden, chronicler († 1364)
- John Pearson, Bishop of Chester († 1686)
- Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester († 1752)
- John Graham , Bishop of Chester († 1865), buried in the cemetery
- George Clarke of Hyde , 1736–1743 Colonial Governor of New York
literature
- Anthony Bowerman (1996), Chester Cathedral, The Secret Past , Chester: Chester Cathedral, ISBN 0-9522434-2-3
- Alec Clifton-Taylor (1967), The Cathedrals of England , London: Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-500-20062-9
- Painton Cowen (2003), Six Days: The Story of the making of the Chester Cathedral Creation Window , Bristol: Alastair Sawday Publishing, ISBN 1-901970-33-7
- Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- John Harvey (1961) [1950], English cathedrals (3rd edition), London: Batsford, OCLC 2683041
- Beatrice Home, Gordon Home (eds.) (1925), Cathedrals, Abbeys and Famous Churches - Chester, Manchester and Liverpool , JM Dent & Sons Ltd, OCLC 1681547
- Charles Hiatt (1911) [1898], The cathedral church of Chester; a description of the fabric and a brief history of the episcopal see , London: G. Bell, OCLC 841718720
- Edward Morris, Emma Roberts (2012), Public Sculpture of Cheshire and Merseyside (excluding Liverpool) , Public Sculpture of Britain, 15, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, ISBN 978-1-84631-492-6
- Derek Nuttall (2009), Chester Cathedral Library . In: Cheshire History , Chester: Cheshire Local History Association, 49, ISSN 0141-8696
- Raymond Richards (1947), Old Cheshire Churches , London: Batsford, OCLC 719918
- Bernie Sheehan (2003). Chester Cathedral . Jarrold Publishing. ISBN 0-7117-3090-3 .
- HF Starkey (1990), Old Runcorn , Halton: Halton Borough Council
- Tim Tatton-Brown, John Crook (2002), The English Cathedral , London: New Holland, ISBN 1-84330-120-2
- Alan Thacker (2014). Chester . In: Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg (Eds.). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England (2nd edition). Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell. Pp. 104-06. ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 30.8 " N , 2 ° 53 ′ 25.7" W.