Arundel Cathedral

Arundel Cathedral ( Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St. Philip Howard) in Arundel, West Sussex, is the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. The neo-Gothic basilica was built in 1868-1873, designed by Joseph Hansom.

History

The church owes its origin to Henry Fitzalan - Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel ( 1847-1917 ). As a member of a traditionally Catholic family and also the owner of the highest-ranking title in the Peerage of England, he had made the consolidation and integration into society of English Catholicism to task after the Catholic Emancipation in 1829 set in the United Kingdom. As a visible testimony he gave at the headquarters of his family, on the ridge above the Arun and close to Arundel Castle, a representative church in order. The new parish church was the patronal feast of St. Philip Neri, founder of the Oratory, which also includes the prominent convert John Henry Newman ( † 1890) was a member.

1877, Henry Fitzalan - Howard, a Arundeler the Corpus Christi celebration that is celebrated to this day in the same way. The central aisle of the cathedral is designed with a many -square-meter carpet of flowers, the procession with the Blessed Sacrament leaves the church on the after the fair. Following a path through the flower-filled streets of the city also the final blessing at the castle is granted.

In 1965, with the establishment of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, the church became a cathedral. Now she was the main patron saint Our Lady. After 1970 Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel had been canonized together with the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, whose mortal remains were transferred in 1971 from the castle to the cathedral, and in 1973 the co- patron saint Philip Neri by Philip Howard was replaced.

Architecture and Facilities

The Cathedral of Arundel is built of brick and faced with Bath stone. She is a three-aisled basilica with a transept geostete in imitation of French Gothic. From the corresponding west towers, but only the northern was carried up to the height of the nave. In the transept is a slender roof skylights. The transept facades have 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. The Ostabschluss forms a polygonal apse.

The interior is characterized by the high column bundles, barely interrupted by floral capitals, open into the arches of the side aisles and carry the cross vault. The series of paired clerestory window brings up a daylight. The organ loft 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 Querhausarms, parallel to the choir, the Lady Chapel is a statue of the Virgin on the model of Lourdes Our Lady of Joseph -Hugues Fabisch. It is both a sacrament chapel. At the transept North Face since 1971 is on the altar and reliquary of St. Philip Howard with a statue of the martyr in Elizabethan costume.

The organ on the West Stand was built by the organ builder William Hill. The instrument was originally at St John 's Church in Islington, and was acquired in 1873 for the Cathedral and placed there in a new housing. The organ has 39 registers on three manuals and pedal. The play and Registertrakturen are electro.

Southeast of the cathedral closes, held in the Tudor style, to the house of the bishop and the diocesan Domklerus with the administration and the sacristy.