Chester Cathedral

We still have availability for our Italian Gala Night on Friday 17th May.
Don’t miss out on hearing local girls Emily and Sophie from Belle Voci sing their hearts out and Celebrity Chef Francesco Gotti cooking up culinary delights for you to enjoy.

We are delighted to be hosting the next Italian Gala Night alongside Bollicini Chester on Friday 17th May.
Guests will be entertained by the fantastic opera duet Belle Voci throughout the evening.

Explore your creative side and join us for an evening of drawing using the beautiful interior of the cathedral as inspiration.
Merging history and architecture with art – the evening will include a 20 minute talk and workshop with local artist Lynette Howells-Moore. This will be followed by a short tour of the building to spark some creativity, allowing time to make quick sketches as you go. After the tour the cathedral space is yours to enjoy with a chance to chat to fellow ...artists, share your work and ask for tips from our artist Lynette. A chance to relax, learn new skills and chat to like-minded people.
Lynette Howells-Moore is an established artist with works in public and private collections worldwide. She lived, taught and worked in London, before moving to Chester at the turn of the Millennium, where she now continues her work as an artist and teacher. She has been offering drawing workshops for over 30 years.
Suitable for anyone from beginners to advanced artists.
Please note that no equipment will be provided so please bring a range of sketching pencils, chalk, graphite or charcoal, sketching paper or sketch pads in manageable sizes and a clipboard.
Attendees are invited to bring a bottle of water or a hot drink in a flask.
Doors open: 6.45pm
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Will you be joining the Chester Cathedral Choir this Good Friday for The Crucifixion?

A reminder that this evening, at 7pm, we join cathedrals and churches across the country in ringing the cathedral bells for 7 minutes as a mark of solidarity following the devastating fire at Notre Dame Cathedral.
@notredameparis #NotreDame #France #Paris

We look forward to welcoming you to our services during Holy Week.

At 7pm on Thursday 18 April, Chester Cathedral will join cathedrals and churches across the country as we ring the bells for 7 minutes as a mark of solidarity following the devastating fire at Notre Dame Cathedral.

Can you help..?
Someone has asked us for some help reconnecting a couple with their camera... The camera was found during the Chester Mystery Plays on the 14 July 2018, and contains numerous videos.
One of the people may be a teacher, as one video appears to show children rehearsing for a play in what looks like a school hall.
... We're publishing two snapshots that were sent to us. If you recognise either of the people, or indeed are one of the people shown, do please message our Facebook Page, and we'll put you in touch.
[edit: photographs have now been removed, as those persons have been identified.]
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Our hearts go out to the people of Paris as the Notre Dame tragedy grips them this Holy Week. We pray for the cathedral community and all who now work to restore and rebuild such an inspiring house of prayer. Nos sinceres prières de la part de la Communauté de la Cathedrale de Chester.
The Very Revd Dr Tim Stratford, Dean of Chester

Due to a last-minute cancellation we have a table available for our Italian Gala Evening this Saturday.
If you are interested in coming along, for what will be an amazing night, please contact the Refectory on 01244 500 964.

If you joined us for one of our Indoor Outdoor Cinema Experiences earlier this week, we would love to hear your feedback...
Please take a few moments to complete our short survey, below:

David Mach’s work is coming on...
Do you intend to come along and see Two Twisted? It opens on Friday 12 April and until Monday 20 May.

Last nights guests have left the lawn clean and tidy ready for this evening’s performance of Titanic in the nave of the cathedral.
Come along and join us for our 'Indoor Outdoor Cinema Experience'. Something different to do this spring break.
Tickets are available on the door, or from at: bit.ly/CC_Titanic

The lawn is mown ready for this evening’s performance of the Disney Pixar classic Finding Nemo in the nave of the cathedral.
Come along and join us for our 'Indoor Outdoor Cinema Experience'. Something different to do this spring break.
Tickets available at: bit.ly/CC_Nemo

Yesterday, dynamic artist David Mach RA arrived at the cathedral to commence the live-installation of his creation - Two Twisted.
Two classic sports cars were delivered into the cathedral yesterday, whilst today, David and the cathedral team hand-built two enormous shipping containers. Like a huge IKEA kit.
Here's a short timelapse video of some of today's work.
... Two Twisted opens on Friday 12 April and will remain in place until Monday 20 May. The installation is a part of our extraordinary year of special events - entitled waves.
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Places are now limited for our Italian Gala Evening on Saturday 13 April.
If you would like to reserve a table, please call us on 01244 500 959.

visited the Cathedral and the falconry well worth a visit had a great day out , the falconry was great value for money and the people running it are so helpful knowledgeable and just lovely, I will be going back again

What an amazing use of the fabulous space that is Chester cathedral. The buildinh itself is beautiful but to use it to showcase spme amazing pieces of modern sculptue is a genius idea. Can not recommend highly enough,

What an amazing place to visit 😃👍 went up the tower to the very top what a fab experience 😍👍our tour guide I think his name was Matt was brilliant very knowledgable and made it fun as well 👍😃and then got a coffee and cake 🍰 at the end x a day to remember 😃👍❤️

What an amazing cathedral. Loved every minute of going around it and will definitely do the tour next time ! Also lite candles for Our Mum and Dad . Loved the Gift shop such beautiful gifts . Thank you �

What a lovely children's services on Sunday was great to see the cathedral Sunday school take such a prominent part in the services. Was great to see the friendship flower the children did on display in the cathedral entrance that afternoon for everyone to enjoy.

This is a beautiful Cathedral in lovely Chester. The Ark Sculpture Exhibition that is on their is fantastic. The stained glass windows are so nice. Some sort of service was on when we visited. Someone was playing the organ, which sounded amazing. Well worth a visit.

The cathedral is a wonderful building with some amazing architecture. The exhibition was great too apart from the display of the calf and cat but that's my personal preference. Overall a fantastic place to visit.

Stunning ancient architecture, beautiful art and very friendly staff. We visit every time we come to Chester and every time we find more to see.

One of the most amazing buildings in Chester and always a pleasure to walk around. Love the fact that it's free to enter (donations) and always plenty of events happening. Food is good too!

Never fails to amaze me, the ARK exhibition was a great addition. There was only one exhibit I didn't like but that was a very personal thing. The cafe was good value, we'll run and clean. It's a must see when in Chester.

It is great to have this place of worship open as a public space! They really embrace community and tge arts too

I would like to say how wonderful my afternoon tea was and everybody couldnt do enough to make it so special. I really enjoyed it i would like to thank you all from the manager to chef and the waitress who looked after us i didnt get her name we came in at 1 30 on the 21st March thank you once again

I visit regularly from Oswestry, Shropshire.



A wonderful Cathedral,

with such character and history.



I am a Business Woman

and have 100s of friends

across the world,

who avidly

“come with me!”

on my visits to your Cathedral,

and see my photos and videos

“Live” as I walk around!



The water Statues are immensely popular!



I visited yesterday (March 13th 2018) and was immensely moved by the hanging portraits of our Soldiers and the graphic scenes of World War 1.



One particular picture of a Soldier carrying his friend

took my breath way,

as it was so sad ,

and the expression on the

gentleman ‘s face will stay with me for a very long time.



Tracey Austin,

Oswestry,

Shropshire,

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Beautiful place with modern art. Make sure do the tour to the top of the Cathedral with Matt who has loads of fact and is a great story teller. You will see the inside of the cathedral from a gallery view and go to the bell tower and then on to the roof of the cathedral where you can see for miles. The tour last half an hour and is only £6 plus it keeps Matt fit and healthy.

Always visit the cathedral in whichever city I'm in. This year it was Chester and it certainly proved to be one of the best. Combined with a Christmas shopping trip with my daughter it was a highlight. Loved the " Old court" brilliant stories. Lovely idea to build the cathedral in Lego bricks, it gives you a real sense of the building. Will definitely visit again.

A lovely Cathedral. Unfortunately it was too cold to do the upper tour, however I was so pleased to arrive in time to listen to an Organ Recital by Oliver Hancock from Portsmouth which was wonderful and well worth the admittance money.

A fabulous cathedral with an interesting art exhibition called the Ark exhibition going on at the moment but I especially loved the £1 for a lego brick. A great fundraising idea and well worth the donation

I went on the Cathedral height tour and absolutely loved it. It's well worth the £6 for 30 minutes. You get to see the bell and those steps to the top was great fun. You see our beautiful city from a height and that's something you don't see often.

Well worth a go and you get a free drink of tea or coffee if you buy a cake...

I really enjoyed Chester we arrived on the train which is a short walk from the hub of activities, I went to Grosvenor Park with my family and friend for the miniature railway and children's playground. We then headed to Chester Boat and had a lovely trip along the river, after lunch at Las Iguanas we headed to the shops and Cathedral. We then went to the nearby Roman Amphitheatre which underwhelmed somewhat, with time against us we skipped the Castle and proceeded to the Roman Gardens which filtered back down to the river. We all had an ice cream whilst enjoying the stunning views from bridge.