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Chichester Cathedral clergy will SPRINKLE ash on worshippers’ foreheads instead of rubbing it on during Lent service to cut Covid risk The change is being made at Chichester Cathedral’s Ash Wednesday service Clergy will sprinkle ash with their hands from a distance over worshippers’ heads It is just one of many restrictions to have an … Read more
Canterbury Cathedral has won praise for resisting calls to remove statues with historic links to slavery despite calls by Justin Welby to look at them ‘very carefully.’ The Archbishop of Canterbury last year suggested the monuments should be reviewed to see if they ‘should all be there.’ He made the comments last June, when monuments … Read more
A glass act again after 350 years… Canterbury Cathedral windows depicting the miracles of Thomas Becket are being reassembled after experts realised they had been in the wrong order for centuries Experts discovered stained glass windows have been in the wrong order The windows stood next to Becket’s shrine, which was destroyed in 16th century … Read more
Vaccinations are continuing to be dished out at Salisbury Cathedral today as religious landmarks join the battle against the coronavirus. NHS staff worked with church workers and volunteers to help the elderly receive their jab in the 800-year-old place of worship in Wiltshire. Pictures today showed rows of mask-wearing visitors sitting in the atrium in … Read more
Vaccinations are continuing to be dished out at Salisbury Cathedral today as religious landmarks join the battle against the coronavirus. NHS staff worked with church workers and volunteers to help the elderly receive their jab in the 800-year-old place of worship in Wiltshire. Pictures today showed rows of mask-wearing visitors sitting in the atrium in … Read more
Pensioners flocked to Litchfield Cathedral today after it was transformed into a make-shift Covid vaccination centre. Hundreds of people thronged the magnificent 826-year-old gothic edifice to visit temporary nursing stations where they received the Oxford-AstraZeneca injection. Britain’s oldest three-spired cathedral, in Staffordshire, was dubbed ‘the most glamorous vaccine centre in Britain’ by the city’s MP. … Read more
It’s very nearly Ely! Couple recreate picturesque cathedral… using 400,000 LEGO bricks Mike Addis and Catherine Weightman built a detailed model of Ely Cathedral They used 400,000 little plastic bricks to recreate the Cambridgeshire landmark It has stained glass windows, flying buttresses and the octagonal Lantern Tower By Andrew Levy For The Daily Mail Published: 22:34 … Read more
Police fatally shoot gunman who opened fire during Christmas concert on front steps of Manhattan’s St. John the Divine Cathedral A gunman opened fire on the front steps of St. John the Divine Cathedral in Harlem during a Christmas show with singing carolers around 3.45pm He was reportedly ‘firing into the air’, but no one was … Read more
Distanced merrily on high? Choir climbs more than 100ft to rehearse festive singing duties on roof of Ely Cathedral Sixteen choristers aged 10 to 16 climbed onto the roof of Ely Cathedral to sing The girls scaled more than 100ft above Cambridgeshire Fens to rehearse They will perform at socially-distanced and live-streamed services at Christmas By Daily … Read more
Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall wrap up warm and don colourful face masks as they visit Salisbury Cathedral to mark its 800th anniversary Prince Charles, 72, and Camilla, 73, arrived in Salisbury this morning Attended service in celebration of 800th anniversary of foundation of cathedral Wore colourful face masks and wrapped up in winter … Read more