Arundel Cathedral
The Cathedral of Arundel ( Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard ) in Arundel , West Sussex , the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton . The neo-Gothic basilica was built in 1868–1873 according to plans by Joseph Hansom .
history
The church owes its construction to Henry Fitzalan-Howard , Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Arundel (1847–1917). As a member of a traditional Catholic family and at the same time holder of the highest ranking title in the Peerage of England , he had made the consolidation and social integration of English Catholicism his task after the Catholic emancipation in the United Kingdom in 1829 . As a sign that can be seen from afar, he commissioned a representative church to be built at his family's ancestral home, on the ridge above the Arun and near Arundel Castle . The new parish church received the patronage of St. Philipp Neri , the founder of the oratory , to which the prominent convert John Henry Newman († 1890) also belonged.
In 1877, Henry Fitzalan-Howard introduced the Arundel Corpus Christi celebration , which is still celebrated today. The central aisle of the cathedral is covered with a many square meter carpet of flowers, over which the procession with the Holy of Holies leaves the church after the mass . After walking through the streets of the city, which are also decorated with flowers, the final blessing is given at the castle.
It was not until 1965, with the establishment of the diocese of Arundel and Brighton, that the church became a cathedral. Now she received Our Lady as the main patronage . After Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel was canonized along with the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales in 1970 , his remains were moved from the castle to the cathedral in 1971, and in 1973 the Philipp Neri minor patronage was replaced by Philip Howard .
Architecture and equipment
Arundel Cathedral is built of brick and covered with bath stone. It is an east - facing three-aisled basilica with a transept in imitation of the French cathedral Gothic . Of the associated western towers, however, only the northern one was built up to the height of the central nave. On the crossing there is a slim roof ridge . The transept facades are provided with large tracery windows , the portal facade with a rose window . This is flanked by statues of Christ, Mary and the apostles. The nave consists of six, the choir of three bays . A polygonal apse forms the east end .
The interior is dominated by the high bundles of columns, which, barely interrupted by floral capitals , open into the arches to the side aisles and support the groin vault . The row of paired upper clad windows lets in daylight. The organ gallery is designed like a rood screen. The background of the altar area are the pillars and arches of the ambulatory .
On the east wall of the left arm of the transept, parallel to the choir, there is the Lady Chapel with a statue of Our Lady based on the model of the Lourdes Madonna by Joseph-Hugues Fabisch . It is also the sacrament chapel . The altar and reliquary of St. Philip Howard with a statue of the martyr in Elizabethan costume has stood on the north wall of the transept since 1971 .
organ
The organ on the west stand was built by the organ builder William Hill. The instrument originally stood in St John's Church in Islington and was only acquired for the cathedral in 1873 and placed there in a new case. The organ has 39 registers on three manuals and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic.
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To the southeast of the cathedral is the Tudor style house of the bishop and the cathedral clergy with the diocesan administration and the sacristy.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d history
- ↑ activities
- ^ Corpus Christi
- ↑ cathedral 2
- ↑ cathedral 3
- ↑ More information about the organ on the website of The National Pipe Organ Register (English).
- ↑ cathedral 1
Web links
- Network presence of the Cathedral (English)
- Network presence of the association (with pictures; English)
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 18.6 ″ N , 0 ° 33 ′ 31.7 ″ W.