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Chester Cathedral.
Cathedral Church of Christ and The Blessed Virgin Mary,
Chester, England.
The Cathedral, seen from the South-East, looking towards the Choir, right, with the Lady Chapel projecting, extreme right, and the South Transept, left. The Lady Chapel is in the Early-English
(or Lancet) Gothic Style, marked by the simple windows. The Choir is in the Late-Geometric Decorated Gothic Style. The South Transept has Flowing Decorated Windows in the Aisle,
and Perpendicular Gothic Windows in the Clerestory. The friable Red Sandstone building
was heavily restored in the 19th-Century.
Photo: May 2012.
Source: Family Album.
Author: Stephen Hamilton.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Cathedral is a Grade I Listed Building, and part of a heritage site that also includes the former Monastic buildings to the North, which are also listed Grade I. The Cathedral, typical of English Cathedrals in having been modified many times, dates from between 1093 and the Early-16th-Century, although the site itself may have been used for Christian worship since Roman times. All the major styles of English Mediaeval architecture, from Norman to Perpendicular, are represented in the present building.
The Lord Bishop of Chester,
the Right Reverend Peter Forster.
The fortieth Bishop of Chester.
Image: THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
The Nave,
Chester Cathedral,
Chester, England.
The building of the Nave, began in 1323,
and was halted by The Plague
and completed 150 years later.
Photo: 22 May 2012.
Source: Chester Cathedral.
Uploaded by russavia.
Author: Michael Beckwith.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The City of Chester was an important Roman stronghold. There may have been a Christian Basilica on the site of the present Cathedral in the Late-Roman era, while Chester was controlled by the Roman Legion Legio XX Valeria Victrix (Twentieth Victorious Valerian Legion).
Chester Cathedral Choir Stalls.
Decorated Gothic (about 1380)
and Rood Screen (Late-19th-Century).
Photo: May 2012.
Source: Family Album.
Author: Stephen Hamilton.
(Wikimedia Commons)
During the Dark Ages, Barloc of Norbury, a Catholic Celtic Saint and Hermit, was Venerated at Chester Cathedral with a Feast Day on 10 September. He is known to history, mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript; he also occurs in a Litany in the Tanner of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
English: Saint Werburga (Werburgh).
Anglo-Saxon Princess and Patron Saint of Chester.
Feast Day 3 February.
Chester Cathedral Refectory (Eastern window).
1916.
Deutsch: Chester ( England ). Kathedrale:
Refektorium - Ostfenster (1916): Heilige Werburga.
Photo: 13 July 2011.
Source: Own work.
Author: Wolfgang Sauber.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Chancel.
The High Altar has a Reredos, by J.R. Clayton,
of Clayton and Bell, and a Seasonal Altar Frontal
(or Antependium) in the Art Nouveau Style.
Photo: May 2012.
Source: Family Album.
Author: Stephen Hamilton.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Chancel.
at the Liturgical East End of a traditional Christian Church, possibly including the Choir.
It may terminate in an Apse.
As well as the Altar, the Chancel usually houses the Credence Table and seats for Officiating and Assisting Ministers. In Anglican and Methodist Churches, it will usually include the Choir. In some traditions, the Pulpit and Lectern may be in the Chancel, but, in others, these functions are considered proper to the Nave.The word "Chancel" derives from the French usage of "chancel" from the Late-Latin word "cancellus", meaning "lattice". This refers to the typical form of Rood Screen. The Chancel was formerly known as the Presbytery, because it was reserved for the Clergy.
The Chancel is typically raised, somewhat, above the level of the Nave, where the Congregation gathers. It may be separated from the Nave by a Rood Screen, a rail, a Sanctuary Bar, or an open space. In some Churches, the Congregation may gather on three sides, or in a semi-circle around the Chancel. A Chancel Arch is an Arch which separates the Chancel (Sanctuary or Choir) from the Nave of a Church.
In 1093, a Benedictine Abbey was established on the site by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and the earliest surviving parts of the structure date from that time. The Abbey Church was not at that time the Cathedral of Chester; from 1075 to 1082, the Cathedral of the Diocese was the nearby Church of Saint John the Baptist, after which the See was transferred to Coventry.
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