Northampton Cathedral

The Cathedral of Northampton ( Cathedral Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Thomas of Canterbury ) in the central English city of Northampton is the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton. The neo-Gothic basilica was built in three stages in 1844, 1863 /64 and 1948 to 1955.

History and Architecture

The Cathedral stands on the site of the medieval monastery of St. Andrew's, which is connected with life stations of Thomas Becket and John Duns Scotus, but of which no remains of buildings have been preserved.

Nachreformatorisches Catholic life started in Northampton in the 1820s. 1825 St. Andrew's Chapel was built on the site of the present church. When this was no longer sufficient for the grown mainly by Irish immigrants church was built in 1844 west of it, designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, a Collegiate Chapel with the patronage of St. Felix.

After the collection of Northampton became a bishopric in 1850, the St. Felix chapel was too small, and Edward Welby Pugin, it expanded to 1864 to a three-aisled basilica, the nave of the present cathedral. The tower was planned by unrealized. Now the church received the name of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God and St. Thomas of Canterbury.

From 1948 onwards, the orientation of the Cathedral of the West was filmed east; the polygonal apse West was converted to the entrance area and provided with a loft. In the East, the St. Andrew's Chapel was demolished in 1825 and expanded the cathedral by adding a new flat closing choir and transept with zinnenbekröntem crossing tower in forms of Tudor England.

Equipment

Corresponding to the portions of the building history has the Northampton Cathedral in the nave Gothic picture windows and statues, in the eastern part of a device from the second half of the 20th century.

In the cathedral are two organs. The main organ is a digital instrument with 60 stops on three manuals and pedal. In 2008 it was installed in the west gallery. On the northern Vierungstribüne there is a small pipe instrument that has been built in 1976 by ​​organ builder Hendrik ten Bruggencate ( Northampton ). The instrument has 10 stops on two manuals and pedal. The tracker action are mechanical.

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