Read on to discover all the latest news, updates and information from Wakefield Cathedral, including upcoming events, important information and weekly reflections from our clergy.
07 February 2025
Earlier this week I found myself attending a meeting of cathedral precentors at Westminster Abbey. Not in the Abbey itself, however, but in a rather impressive room known as the Jerusalem Chamber.
31 January 2025
When I mentioned the RSPB centre at St Aiden’s and Fairburn Ings the other week I had forgotten that we in Wakefield can bird-watch at Pugney’s Country Park.
31 January 2025
A couple of weeks ago late one evening our next-door neighbour’s dog started barking. It barked and barked until I was about to get out of bed and then it stopped.
24 January 2025
On January 26 of every year, International Environmental Education Day is celebrated and utilised to be the day of support and service to our mother nature.
24 January 2025
Perhaps I should introduce myself. I am Erik Peeters, the new Residentiary Canon at the cathedral and Lay Training Officer with the Diocese. As I write this, I find I am in an odd place – both excited and a little terrified by the fact that my family and I are making a new start, again.
17 January 2025
What do you say to people in mid-January? In December you can ask people about their Christmas plans (having complained in October that the shops are already selling mince pies!).
17 January 2025
It’s that time of year again when we can sign up to support the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. ‘This is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Every year, hundreds of thousands of nature lovers take part, helping to build a picture of how garden birds are faring.’ (RSPB.org.uk)
10 January 2025
Just after New Year, a couple of days before the temperatures in Wakefield dropped to sub-zero, the cathedral heating system failed. The heating engineer duly attended, inspected the boilers and pipework, lifted grates here and there, spoke mysteriously about manifolds and pumps and valves – and then left saying he would write a report.
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