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Manchester Cathedral Wraps for Peace

Date online: 1 March 2012

The Dean of Manchester and others will be wrapping crime scene tape around the medieval cathedral on Thursday morning. This isn’t due to the spate of precious metal thefts that have taken place ...

Cathedral Education Department chalks up its tenth anniversary!

Date online: 23 February 2012

Cathedral Education Department chalks up its tenth anniversary!

It’s party time at Manchester Cathedral on 29 February as we celebrate 10 years of formal education work at Manchester Cathedral. The department was set up in 2002 in response to a number of ...

Cathedral Flower Arrangers required

Date online: 14 February 2012

Cathedral Flower Arrangers required

Manchester Cathedral is looking for volunteers to join the teams who provide flower arrangements for the Cathedral. Volunteers work in small teams of four usually on a Friday but sometimes on other ...

Choristership at Manchester Cathedral

Date online: 10 February 2012

Choristership at Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral Choir has a limited number of places available for choristers, beginning in September 2012. The Choristers themselves tell us that “being a chorister is hard work but very ...

Manchester Cathedral Interfaith Religious Poetry Competition, 2012

Date online: 24 January 2012

The competition has now closed.Copies of the booklet of last year’s winning entries and runners-up are still available. If you would like a copy, please send a cheque for £4.00 for each ...

Cathedral market stall closes its shutters after almost five weeks of Christmas trading

Date online: 23 December 2011

Cathedral market stall closes its shutter after almost five weeks of Christmas trading

On Wednesday 21 December the Cathedral market stall closed its shutters after almost five weeks of Christmas trading.Warm thanks must go to all the volunteers who gave their time so willingly and ...

St Denys has arrived!

Date online: 17 November 2011

St Denys has arrived!

After months of planning, packing, unpacking and extreme DIY, St Denys’ Bookshop is now open! Penny and Sue and the staff welcome you to their new premises situated in the basement of the Cathedral ...

Photographs from the BBC Radio 2 Presents Elbow’s Homecoming Gig

Date online: 7 November 2011

© 2010 David Lake Photography Limited

BBC Radio 2 presented Elbow’s Homecoming Gig At Manchester Cathedral on Thursday 27 October 2011. Bury band Elbow performed tracks from their Mercury Prize nominated album, Build A Rocket Boys!, in ...

Manchester Cathedral Christmas Market stall opens for business

Date online: 7 November 2011

The annual Manchester Christmas Market is back! From 17 November to 21 December, the city streets will be thronging with shoppers looking for customary Christmas fare.As part of the Cathedral’s ...

Cathedral Christmas Card

Date online: 29 September 2011

Cathedral Christmas Card

The Cathedral Christmas card is now available to order. The cards cost £6.50 for a pack of 10 or 75p per card. All proceeds from the sale of the card will support the establishment of a new organ ...

Redcrosse

Date online: 3 August 2011

Redcrosse

Here is a short film, by Liam Hardy, showing parts of the Cathedral’s special ‘Redcrosse: Celebration of St. George’ event on May 8th this year: some of the poems, plus the giants in all their ...

Christmas Market

Date online: 27 July 2011

For the third year, Manchester Cathedral will be taking part in the Christmas Markets with a wooden hut located in Exchange Square. Our stall will operate from Thursday 17 November to 21 December ...

The ‘Giants’

Date online: 5 July 2011

Photographs of the Giants

The Booth Centre, in collaboration with the Mustard Tree Centre, has commissioned a short video film about the making of the 15 foot high processional giants, based on the figures of St. George and ...

Manchester Cathedral has appointed Nursery Fresh Wholesale....

Date online: 28 June 2011

Manchester Cathedral has appointed Nursery Fresh WholesaleFlowers as sole supplier to Its 2012 Flower Festival.

Man United and Churches to parade thorough Manchester City on Whit Bank Holiday

Date online: 24 May 2011

On Monday 30th May two ‘passion’ parades will take place in the centre of Manchester.Manchester United will parade down Deansgate, to celebrate their football victories, at 10am, and at ...

Exhibition by Manchester Photographic Society

Date online: 17 May 2011

Exhibition by Manchester Photographic Society

This Exhibition of photographs will cover a wide variety of subjects: landscapes, candids, portraits, and church interiors, in colour and black & white, produced both digitally and in the darkroom.