In the course of the Catholic emancipation , a prayer room was set up for the initially small community in Leeds in 1786, and a chapel was built in 1794. Because of the rapid growth of the community through industrialization and Irish immigrants, the first St. Anne's Church was built in the city center from 1836–38, named after the patroness of a principal donor. The elevation to the cathedral took place in 1878 with the establishment of the diocese of Leeds.
Annenkirche had to be forcibly sold and demolished in 1899 for a street widening planned by the city. Parts of the equipment were taken over in the new building. This was created a few meters from the old location.
Architecture and equipment
The cathedral shows the forms of the English late Gothic in transition to the Renaissance , the so-called Tudor style . It consists of a three-aisled, three-bay nave , a three-aisled, four-bay, but narrower choir with a flat end, between a lower transept and on the north side a high square tower with a flat pyramid helmet . The facade in the west is richly structured; There is a crucifixion group above the portal . The central nave and choir are spanned with flat barrel vaults. Inside, the architectural forms are emphasized by the contrast between white plastered surfaces and stone-faced columns, arches and soffits . The choir arch made of roughly hewn stones is dominant .
Numerous wall paintings in the Nazarene style are worth mentioning. The high altar, which is rich in figures and crowned with a canopy, stands out from the neo-Gothic altars, in front of which the stone bishop's cathedra stands.
organ
The organ goes back to an instrument that was built in 1904 by the organ builders Norman and Beard. 1963 and 2009, the organ by organ builder was Johannes Klais (Bonn) reorganized and expanded, with the organ in two locations (= Nave Nave, Choir = choir) was divided, and each of the self-contained instruments with its own pedal mechanism and game table equipped has been. The instrument is still voiced in the English style. The existing registers from 1904, which today are largely distributed among the works of the Nave Organ (Great, Swell, Pedal), have been restored. The new registers, some of which date back to 1963, were created based on the materials and construction from that time. The instrument has a total of 49 stops, divided into 7 independent works, playable from a four-manual general console.
I Nave Great Organ C – a 3
Double diapason
16 ′
Open Diapason I
8th'
Open Diapason II
8th'
Hollow flute
8th'
Principal
4 ′
Harmonic flute
4 ′
Fifteenth
2 ′
Mixture III
Trumpet
8th'
II Chorale Great Organ C – a 3
Open diapason
8th'
Bourdon
8th'
Dulciana
8th'
Principal
4 ′
Flood
4 ′
Gemshorn
2 ′
Cornettino III
III Coral Swell Organ C – a 3
Pipe flute
8th'
Salicional
8th'
Vox Angelica
8th'
Principal
4 ′
Flauto Traverso
4 ′
Mixture III
Cornopean
8th'
oboe
8th'
Tremulant
IV Nave Swell Organ C – a 3
Bourdon
16 ′
Violin Principal
8th'
Lovely covered
8th'
Echo gamba
8th'
Voix Celeste
8th'
Gemshorn
4 ′
Lovely flute
4 ′
Mixture III
Double trumpet
16 ′
horn
8th'
oboe
8th'
Vox Humana
8th'
Tremulant
IV Nave Solo Organ C – a 3
tuba
8th'
Octave tuba
4 ′
Solo flute
8th'
Clarinet
8th'
Nave Pedal Organ C – f 1
Harmonic bass
32 ′
Open diapason
16 ′
Violone
16 ′
Bourdon
16 ′
Quint bass
10 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Octave
8th'
Bass flute
8th'
Trombones
16 ′
Choral Pedal Organ C – f 1
Sub bass
16 ′
Individual evidence
↑ More information about the organ on the website of the Diocese of Leeds ; see. also the information on the organ builder's website
