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.
08 July 2022
Last week saw the final choral services of the choir year, as we waved the choristers and lay clerks off on their well-deserved summer break. Many of us, I’m sure, will be similarly disappearing over the coming weeks as we jet off on holiday or journey to our favourite UK destination (as long as the airports, trains, buses and motorways are still functioning)….
01 July 2022
I have no skin in the game of American politics, so I have been able to look on with a degree of dispassion at the extraordinary divergence of views about what really happened on 06 January 2021 in the Capitol building in Washington DC.
29 June 2022
Nicky’s son Christopher joined Wakefield Cathedral Choir in January 2022 and as she explains, despite often facing struggles with change and in social situations due to autism, Christopher has taken the role of Chorister in his stride.
17 June 2022
We have a new Eco group at the cathedral! Kiran, Sue, Mark and I have been meeting over the last couple of months to get our heads around the challenge of lowering our carbon footprint at the cathedral and how we can fulfil the mission of being active in loving creation.
16 June 2022
Wakefield Cathedral has been proud to partner with Camphill, Wakefield’s specialist college for SEND students, for a number of years, and earlier this week we were pleased to grow our partnership once again thanks to a little bit of gardening work.
15 June 2022
Nine-year old Lily-Rose is one of the newest members of Wakefield Cathedral’s ever-growing choir, having joined just four months ago, a role which is somewhat in contrast to her second musical hobby – learning how to mix the decks at the family pub just a stone’s throw away…
10 June 2022
If you listen to Desert Island Discs on Radio 4, you will know that at the end of the programme every guest is invited to nominate a luxury that they would take if they were cast away on a desert island. My luxury (probably not allowable!) would be two cricket teams (with two umpires) playing an endless succession of five day test matches on a decent pitch.
10 June 2022
On Thursday 23 June, Wakefield Cathedral will warmly welcome Revd Colin Baldwin, who is taking part in Stage Two of his mammoth challenge of cycling the English Cathedrals, raising funds to build a new centre by his church in the city of Southend-on-Sea.
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