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Welcome to Salford Cathedral. Yet, even as the church was building, the plans were much extended so that the builders must even then have hoped that they were erecting more than a parish church. To complete the new and greater design, old school buildings had to be swept away, and new ones set up.
All this put an added strain on the courage and the purses of the builders. At last a great Gothic edifice rose on the site, some two hundred feet in length, and with a lofty spire two hundred and forty feet high, at that time the highest steeple ever built in Lancashire, and a symbol of the resurrection and the new life of the Catholic Faith, in spite of dungeon fire and sword. The architect of the Cathedral had done his work well and it was praised by the great Pugin.
Perhaps because the architect was a Yorkshireman, "the outside walls of the church were made of carved stone from the Yorkshire moors, although the interior was made of red sandstone. He had found inspiration for this new church in several old and beautiful churches, built in the ages of faith.
The front of the church, abutting on Chapel Street, is inspired by the west front of Howden Church, Yorkshire. The decorations of the groined roof are from a noble foreign building-the church of St. James at Liege. It took more than forty years to clear away the large debt involved.
It was a day of great jubilation and a crowded social event when, on Wednesday, August 9, , the Catholics of Manchester and Salford celebrated the opening of the new church. The Bishop of the diocese,"Dr. Brown, sang a solemn High Mass in the presence of eight English Bishops, a great concourse of priests and people, includ ing some aristocratic and noble families.
Not since the Reformation had the Catholics of the North witnessed such a splendid and awe-inspiring presentation of the Catholic liturgy, with the Bishops in copes and mitres, six clerks carrying great branches of palm, deacons and celebrant in shining cloth of gold, and one hundred and twenty vested priests. The sermon was preached by the famous Bishop Nicholas Wiseman, later Cardinal, and renowned at that time as the best preacher in England.
For one hour arid a half, Bishop Wiseman spoke beauti ful words of Christian, teaching to his great audience of more than people. Speaking of those, who had built so noble a church, he said, "Theirs is the confidence-notwithstanding the changes of the last three hundred years-that was felt by those of old who built churches, not for themselves or for their children, but for succeeding centuries, and who laboured to impress upon them by their massive-ness that theirs was a church founded upon the Rock of Ages, while by their spires they pointed to its never-failing hopes.
On this great occasion several distinguished laymen, amongst them the Lord Arundel and Surrey, took the collection among the faithful in order to reduce the church debt. The offerings were presented before the altar by the Architect arid Decorator of the church, bearing gold trays.
Inaugurating a long tradition of friendly relationship between the city and the Cathedral, the civic authorities had placed at the disposal of the Catholic community the Town Hall of Salford, where a collation for clergy and laity Bad been provided on the afternoon of the open ing day.
Daniel Lee, and the friendly and cordial Catholic atmosphere of this memorable event may be summed up by the words of Bishop Sharples, who said, "By such gatherings the members of the Catholic Church are taught to feel as one family". The only mark of hostility shown by outsiders at the opening of the new church was the distribution of an anti-Catholic pamphlet among the crowd of spectators who had gathered to witness the arrival of the distinguished strangers at the doors of the new church.
Fortunately the bitterness of the pamphlet made no impression on either Catholics or Protestants, so that the great church of St. John's, Salford, was launched peacefully on its mission of peace. Father George Errington, later famous as Archbishop Coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman, was sent here in as Rector and remained until his appointment as Bishop of Plymouth. He js wrongly credited with building the Cathedral.
On July 25, , the church, now made a Cathedral, was the scene of the consecration of its first Bishop, Dr. Tour Duration: 1 Hour s Travel Distance: 2.
Manchester Introduction Walking Tour The seventh most populated city in England, Manchester is an important cultural, industrial and historic center. The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort established circa 79 AD on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell.
Having been a manorial township throughout the Middle Ages, Manchester enjoyed rapid Manchester Museums Tour Filled with history and important in many domains including industry, economy and culture, Manchester is the city of heritage that is an attraction itself. Tour Duration: 2 Hour s Travel Distance: 4.
Edwardian Architecture Tour A product of the Industrial Revolution, Manchester is noted for its warehouses, railway viaducts, cotton mills and canals, reflecting the most ambitious and exciting phase of its past. Much of the city's architecture developed during the reign of King Edward VII, , which gave birth to the Edwardian architectural style so much popular in the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th Your church is unique, we would love to include it on ExploreChurches.
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