Leeds Cathedral

The Leeds Cathedral ( Cathedral Church of St Anne) in the northern English city of Leeds is the bishop's church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds. It was built between 1902-1904, designed by John Henry Eastwood and Sydney Kyffin Greenslade.

History

In the course of Catholic Emancipation was the first small community in Leeds in 1786, a prayer room set up in 1794 a chapel to be built. Because of the rapid growth of the community through industrialization and Irish immigrants was 1836-38, the first St. Anne's Church in the city center, named after the namesake of a major benefactor. The survey was carried to the cathedral in 1878 with the founding of the Diocese of Leeds.

For a planned by the City road widening the St. Anne's Church in 1899 had to be forcibly sold and demolished. Pieces of equipment were transferred to the new building. This was a few meters away from the old location.

Architecture and Facilities

The cathedral displays the forms of English late Gothic period in the transition to the Renaissance, the so-called Tudor style. It consists of a nave and two aisles, three-pile nave, a three-aisled, vierjochigen, but narrower choir with a flat conclusion, between a lower transept and on the north side of a square tower, flat pyramid helmet. The show in the west facade is richly structured; above the portal is a crucifixion group. Nave and choir are spanned with flat barrel vaults. Inside, the architectural forms through the contrast of white-plastered surfaces are emphasized steinsichtigen columns, arches and soffits. Dominating is the chancel arch of rough- hewn stone.

From the equipment many wall paintings are worth mentioning in the Nazarene. Among the neo-Gothic altars of many figures, baldachinbekrönte high altar stands out before the stone is Bischofskathedra.

The organ dates back to an instrument that had been built in 1904 by the organ builders Norman and Beard. 1963 and 2009, the organ by organ builder Johannes Klais (Bonn) was reorganized and expanded, the organ was divided between two locations ( Nave = Nave, Choir = Choir Room ), and each of the self -contained instruments equipped with its own pedal work and game table been. The instrument continues to be voiced in the English style. The existing registers from 1904, which are now distributed mainly on the works of the Nave Organ ( Great, Swell, Pedal), were restored. The new register, some of them come already from 1963, were material and created based on the design of the time. The instrument has a total of 49 stops on seven separate works, playable from a four -manual General gaming table.