Plymouth Cathedral
The Plymouth Cathedral ( Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint Boniface ) in Plymouth , Devon , is the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth . The neo-Gothic basilica was built between 1856 and 1858 according to plans by Joseph and Charles Hansom . The Marien - patronage builds on the previous church; St. Boniface was chosen as the second patron because his birthplace Crediton is in the diocese area.
history
In the course of the beginning of Catholic emancipation in the United Kingdom and after the immigration of Irish dock workers , a small Catholic church was built on Saint Mary Street in 1807 in the then independent Stonehouse . It was enlarged in 1838 and a school building was added. This Church of St. Mary became a Pro- Cathedral when Plymouth was made the bishopric of Devon, Dorset and Cornwall as part of the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850 .
The foundation stone of the new cathedral was laid on June 22, 1856; on March 25, 1858, the feast of the Annunciation , it was solemnly put into use. In 1866 she received the slim tower helmet. After completing the interior decoration and the stained glass windows and after paying off the remaining debts through gifts of money on the occasion of his 25th bishop's jubilee, Bishop William Vaughan , the actual founding bishop of the Diocese of Plymouth, consecrated the cathedral on September 22, 1880.
During the German air raids on Plymouth in the spring of 1941, the cathedral received serious fire damage; the adjacent convent building was completely destroyed. The restoration took place in the 1950s.
After the post-conciliar liturgical reform had already brought about changes to the furnishings , a consistent redesign was carried out in 1994, which met with enthusiastic approval, but also with decisive rejection.
architecture
The cathedral is built of irregularly cut stone in the sparing forms of the early English Gothic . Two lower transept arms are attached to the transition from the three-aisled nave to the almost equally long choir . The 61 m high tower stands next to the portal facade on the north aisle.
organ
The organ was built in another church building by the organ builder Elliot in 1799, and placed in Plymouth Cathedral in 1865. Since then the instrument has been revised several times by the organ building company Hele & Co (Plymouth). The organ has 32 stops on three manuals and a pedal. The actions are electric.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ plymouthdata St Mary ( Memento of October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ plymouthdata Catholic Cathedral ( Memento of 6 October 2013, Internet Archive ); plymouthcathedral history 5 ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Note and pictures for the redesign in 1994 ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Web presence of the architecture office); Commentary in the Catholic Herald , September 17, 1993 ( Memento of April 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Information on organ
Web links
- History (website of the diocese, English)
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '25.5 " N , 4 ° 9' 5.3" W.