Nominal: 822 Hz Weight: 1074 lbs Diameter: 36.88" Bell 1 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 5232 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Cathedral Church of St German (Peel)
Diocese of Sodor & Man
Cathedral, 636001
http://cathedral.imOverview
Grid reference: SC 246 840
The Cathedral has been built to a cruciform plan with north and south transepts and aisles, two vestries at the eastern end either side of an elongated semi-hexagonal apse and a tower at the north western end. The walls are in coursed red sandstone quarry faced block with dressed stone to the quoins, door and window openings and other features. The main roof is to a scissor truss design with deep-arched-braces under, resting on corbels with three purlins in each slope. The aisle roofs are single pitch with purlins and braces on the outer walls taken from corbels and in the inner walls from pitching plates. The transepts have scissor rafter roofs with puncheons going down the wall plates. The main entrance at the north western corner of the building forms part of the tower, and has double entrance doors and quarry tiled floor. The inner doors connect to a glazed porch in the nave. The font is at the western end of the nave and has a square stone polypod front with marble legs and a simple oak and wrought iron cover. The columns between the nave and the aisles are in hard sandstone alternating in section in octagonal and circular form with varying style capitals upon which rest pointed equilateral arches. In the south western corner of the nave is a secondary access porch. The choir stalls replaced earlier ones in 1935. In the crossing is a carved Caen stone pulpit with ornamented panels supported by marble columns with a sounding board over. The blind arch fronting the north vestry in the north transept has an oak screen. The organ is in located behind the choir on the south side with access by a door that also leads via a corridor to the south vestry.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
The Cathedral is open daily from 9am to 6pm.
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 850 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
The origins of the Christianity on the Isle of Man are traditionally associated with the arrival of St German in 446 and his establishing a base on St Patrick’s Isle, off Peel. The original Cathedral is not known, but by the Medieval period Bishop Simon (former Abbot and builder of Iona) in the 13th century had built a new Cathedral on St Patrick’s Isle. By the early 18th century the Cathedral had fallen into decay. This resulted in the Chapel at Bishopscourt becoming the pro-cathedral. During this time the parish of St German was served by the small church of St Peter in Peel which by the turn of the 19th century had become inadequate for the needs of the local population. As early as 1841 Bishop Short had suggested a new church for Peel but the real initiative was taken by Bishop Hill in 1878 when he began raising funds for this purpose. A vestry meeting in 1879 accepted his offer of £1,000 for the building of a new church, after his original idea to restore the old Cathedral has been rejected. The site chosen by Bishop Hill was purchased for £505 from Miss Elizabeth Groves and Mr Caesar Corris.
The architect of the new Cathedral was T.D. Barry and Sons of Liverpool. The red sandstone is characteristic of Peel, though a more robust section of the same seam emerges in Cheshire. Some of the stonework comes from this Cheshire seam, for example, the internal pillars.
The foundation stone was laid on 21st August 1879 and was opened as the ‘new church’ on 26th August 1884 and was consecrated as the parish church of Peel on 5th October 1893. Prior to 1893 it was legally a chapel-of-ease of St Peter’s. Bishop Rowley hoped the church would become the new Cathedral, but the debate continued for almost a 100 years before an all-Island vote of Anglican members chose St German’s from a short-list of 3 as its new Cathedral. The inauguration took place on the 1st November 1980.
Exterior Description
Exterior walls are coursed red sandstone quarry faced blocks with dressed stones to the quoins, door and window openings and other features are of local stone though the columns between the nave and aisles (alternating circular and octagonal in section) are of a harder Cheshire sandstone.
The main roof supports are of pine with the Nave and the apse having chevron planking behind the rafter. The Transepts are aisles are plain. It is possible that the transepts and aisles indicate an earlier design before the Nave roof fell in in 1903 associated with a storm that blew in the west window.
Large cast iron pipes throughout the Cathedral carry hot water associated with heating. There are two gas fired boilers in the basement
Building Fabric and Features
Tower (component)
The tower is placed at the north western corner of the building which provides the main entrance to the nave. The doorway is set in the north elevation and has an ogee arch. Above this are two small lancet windows with two similar openings in the belfry which are louvred with an inset clock over. The top of the tower has dressed stone cornicing with parapets and pinnacles at each corner finished with cone shaped cappings above projecting gargoyles
Window
The dressed stone window openings in the north and south aisle and the clerestory over have pointed equilateral arches with two small lights and a quatrefoil light above. There are buttresses between the aisle windows.
Building Materials
Sandstone
Exterior walls are coursed red sandstone quarry faced blocks with dressed stones to the quoins, door and window openings and other features are of local stone though the columns between the nave and aisles (alternating circular and octagonal in section) are of a harder Cheshire sandstone.
Wood
The main roof supports are of pine with the Nave and the apse having chevron planking behind the rafter. The Transepts are aisles are plain. It is possible that the transepts and aisles indicate an earlier design before the Nave roof fell in in 1903 associated with a storm that blew in the west window.
Cast Iron
Large cast iron pipes throughout the Cathedral carry hot water associated with heating. There are two gas fired boilers in the basement
Interior
Interior Description
The Cathedral has been built to a cruciform plan with north and south transepts and aisles, two vestries at the eastern end either side of an elongated semi-hexagonal apse and a tower at the north western end. The walls are in coursed red sandstone quarry faced block with dressed stone to the quoins, door and window openings and other features. The main roof is to a scissor truss design with deep-arched-braces under, resting on corbels with three purlins in each slope. The aisle roofs are single pitch with purlins and braces on the outer walls taken from corbels and in the inner walls from pitching plates. The transepts have scissor rafter roofs with puncheons going down the wall plates. The main entrance at the north western corner of the building forms part of the tower, and has double entrance doors and quarry tiled floor. The inner doors connect to a glazed porch in the nave. The font is at the western end of the nave and has a square stone polypod front with marble legs and a simple oak and wrought iron cover. The columns between the nave and the aisles are in hard sandstone alternating in section in octagonal and circular form with varying style capitals upon which rest pointed equilateral arches. In the south western corner of the nave is a secondary access porch. The choir stalls replaced earlier ones in 1935. In the crossing is a carved Caen stone pulpit with ornamented panels supported by marble columns with a sounding board over. The blind arch fronting the north vestry in the north transept has an oak screen. The organ is in located behind the choir on the south side with access by a door that also leads via a corridor to the south vestry.
At the approach to the choir and apse there are black marble steps. The high Altar stands on a predella with a carved Caen reredos behind with inset decorative panels. On the south side of the Apse is Bishop Rowley’s chair and footstool which is surmounted with Diocesan crest.
Fixtures and fittings
Window
The Cathedral’s Stained Glass Windows
The windows are by Alexander Gibbs of Bloomsbury Street, London a large practice, favoured by Butterfield.
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The Bishops Windows (North and South Aisles)
Bishop Rowley Hill initiated the ‘Bishop’s Windows’ early in 1885, within twelve months of the church being formally opened. These are the seven windows, four on the south aisle and three on the north aisle which commemorate several post-Reformation Bishops of Sodor and Man and were paid for by their descendants.
The original scheme suggested that the windows might represent the seven sacraments:
Baptism Our Lord’s baptism
Confirmation Blessing children
Holy Orders Charge to St. Peter
Matrimony The Marriage feast
Holy Communion The last Supper
Unction St. Mary Magdalene anointing the Lord
Forgiveness of Sins Jesus said, ‘Arise, thy sins are forgiven thee’
The Bishop was evidently uncomfortable with the proposal that seemed rather ‘Catholic’ in a Diocese that was predominantly ‘Protestant’. In the event ‘unction’ and ‘penance’ were replaced. Instead of the seven sacraments the windows became associated with the seven occasional offices from the Book of Common Prayer (with unction becoming ‘the storm at sea’, standing in for the visitation of the sick and penance becoming ‘Jesus in the Temple’, standing for the Catechism.
The Bishops commemorated are listed in chronological order:
Bishop Samuel Rutter (1661 - 1662) Storm at Sea – south aisle
Bishop Isaac Barrow (1663 - 1671) Jesus in the Temple – south aisle
Bishop Thomas Wilson (1697 - 1755) Baptism of Jesus – south aisle
Bishop Mark Hildesley (1755 - 1773) The Last Supper – south aisle
Bishop George Murray (1814 - 1827) Christ’s Charge to Peter – north aisle
Bishop William Ward (1827 - 1838) The Marriage Feast at Cana – north aisle
Bishop John Eden (1847 - 1854) Christ Blessing the Children – north aisle
East Windows
The group of three in the apse from north to south are:
The Transfiguration
The Resurrection
The Ascension
South Transept
The Wisdom of Solomon fittingly is in memory of John Moore High Bailiff of Peel who died in 1884
North Transept
Jacob’s Dream is a memorial to Bishop Rowley Hill (1877 - 1887) who was the force behind the building of the church that he wanted to become the Cathedral
West end
There are three windows on the west wall from south to north:
The Nativity in memory of vicar JL Stowell in whose time the foundation stone was laid. (This window was depicted on the Manx 1992 Christmas postage stamps)
The Nativity (the great west window) is post the storm which blew in the window and is in memory of Catherine Lucy Adams who died in April 9th 1904
The Crucifixion is on the north end of the west wall.
Single Lancet window near entrance
The Light of the World is in memory of The Revd Robert Aitken and takes its inspiration from the painting by William Holman Hunt 1853.
Font (component)
Font and cover
The Font is made of Caen stone and supported on marble columns. Carved around the top of the font is the phrase: ‘SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME AND FORBID THEM NOT FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN’. The font was presented by the children of Peel in 1884. The cover has a simple oak base with decorative black ironwork above with eight gold coloured ivy leaves and a gold coloured cross at the top.
Pulpit
The pulpit is constructed of Caen stone and supported on marble columns. It was carved by T.H. Royston, the Douglas monumental mason, responsible for many of the gravestones of the period. Each panel is differently ornamented. There are five steps up with wrought iron handrail and spindles with the lowest having ‘basket’ decoration. The handrail was made by A & B Metal Fabrications (IOM Company) and added in 1988.
The oak and wrought iron Tester above with decorative ivy leaves acts as a sound board.
Reredos
The reredos is of Caen stone with gothic niches that contain ‘icons’ on wood. At the lower level of the reredos decorative flowers are visible around what would have been an east facing altar. Today the altar is west facing.
Paintings on Wood
Six Old Testament figures and 4 evangelists were painted by John Miller Nicholson R.I. (1840-1913), a local artist, whose major work is the interior murals of St Thomas’ in Douglas where all the interior surfaces of the building are painted. The paintings are wood mounted.
On the reredos they depict the four evangelists:
Matthew - winged man
Mark - winged lion
Luke - winged ox
John - an eagle.
On either side of the apse are 3 figures of the Old Testament. From north to south they are:
Moses
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
Aaron
Organ (component)
Originally constructed by Brindley & Foster of Sheffield, in 1883, with mechanical action, three manuals, and 24 speaking stops, using some second-hand material. It is located in a chamber to the south of the choir with en fenetre drawstop console. The organ was re-built in situ by Laycock & Bannister of Keighley, in 1974, with mixed electro-pneumatic and direct electric action. The number of manuals were reduced to 2, still with 24 speaking stops but a different disposition.
Rail
The Communion rail is a mid colour oak rail at the high altar supported by non-decorative ironwork. It has Gothic arches which match the front pew rails in the Nave. Access to the Altar is by two central gates. It would appear that some time in the past the communion rail was moved and the apse area extended forward to the Choir as there appears to be iron stubs of another rail in the floor and the insertion of new tiling does not match the Victorian tiles. The black marble step also protrudes into the doorway giving access to the vestry, whether this is an original miscalculation or an alteration is not known, but in order to deal with this the marble step has been chamfered. The front pew rest in the Nave is made of pitch pine and may relate to earlier pews than those currently in the nave and may have been retrieved from the wreckage of the storm. There is a crown on the end of the pew on the north side and a Bishop’s mitre at the end of the pew on the south side. By custom the representative of the Crown e.g. H.E. The Governor sits on the north side and the representatives of the church on the south side.
Floor
The floor has three grades of tile reflecting ‘hierarchy’: The Apse has elaborate encaustic tiles, the Choir less elaborate encaustic tiles, while those in the gangways between pew blocks are plain quarry tiles in black, red and cream.
It is likely that these encaustic tiles were manufactured by Minton, Craven & Dunhill. The tiles in the Nave are not centralised in the gangways, neither does the pattern match when cross paths meet.
Screen
The Oak screen in the North Transept covers what was probably an entrance to the Chapel/North vestry. There appear to be two steps to the south side of the oak screen, pre-dating the screen, which would give entry to the room across the pine screen that is now on the south side of the north vestry, so this pine screen must be a later addition. The oak screen on east side of the north transept was donated in memory of Annie Cowley, Headmistress of the Clothworkers Infant School Peel, who died in May 1902, so must be early 20th century. There are three panels which have a variety of symbols associated with Christ including the IHS monogram and the Greek letters:
To the south side of the north vestry at some time after the erection of the oak screen was added pine wood panels to enclose the vestry space. This may have been around the time the oak screen was added. The screen of itself is a pleasant structure with an interesting arched area visible from the Choir. This does have the unfortunate effect of making the room non-symmetrical, so the main arch on the west wall and the window on the east wall no longer appears central in the space.
Choir
Mid colour oak fashioned in 1935 more elaborately worked than the other pews in the Cathedral with pew ends having finials of poppy heads each with a different design. The choir stalls fretwork have picked up the details of the altar and Bishop Rowley’s chair. At some stage the choir has been pulled forward to allow the insertion of a new back row of pews on both sides to a slightly different design, presumably because of a growing choir. These pews, while still in oak have no elaborate pew ends. This alteration is also apparent when viewing the floor pattern. A further alteration has been the provision of book rests for music
Wall Hanging
An original wall hanging made by members of the IOM Federation of Women’s Institutes to commemorate the Manx Millennium of Tynwald in 1979 and presented to the Cathedral in
Porch
Spittall Entrance Porch
The entrance porch was created in 1995. The etching on the porch glass is by Christopher Spittall.
Ceremonial Object
The Treasury was built in 1998/1999 and houses Manx Church silver that date back to the 16th century. There are many rare pieces as well as the three final pieces made by Archibald Knox for a restored Cathedral on St Patrick’s Isle. (See Inventory for full catalogue of silver)
Light
The Corona above the Nave Altar in the crossing was installed in 1988 and was made by a Manx firm A & B Metal Fabrications. The corona is wrought ironwork with brass fittings, suspended from 4 anchor chains. Anchors are included in the design, symbolising the sea-going nature of the Island and Peel in particular and a passage in Hebrews 6.19.
Window
The windows are by Alexander Gibbs of Bloomsbury Street, London a large practice, favoured by Butterfield.
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The Bishops Windows (North and South Aisles)
Bishop Rowley Hill initiated the ‘Bishop’s Windows’ early in 1885, within twelve months of the church being formally opened. These are the seven windows, four on the south aisle and three on the north aisle which commemorate several post-Reformation Bishops of Sodor and Man and were paid for by their descendants.
The original scheme suggested that the windows might represent the seven sacraments:
Baptism Our Lord’s baptism
Confirmation Blessing children
Holy Orders Charge to St. Peter
Matrimony The Marriage feast
Holy Communion The last Supper
Unction St. Mary Magdalene anointing the Lord
Forgiveness of Sins Jesus said, ‘Arise, thy sins are forgiven thee’
The Bishop was evidently uncomfortable with the proposal that seemed rather ‘Catholic’ in a Diocese that was predominantly ‘Protestant’. In the event ‘unction’ and ‘penance’ were replaced. Instead of the seven sacraments the windows became associated with the seven occasional offices from the Book of Common Prayer (with unction becoming ‘the storm at sea’, standing in for the visitation of the sick and penance becoming ‘Jesus in the Temple’, standing for the Catechism.
The Bishops commemorated are listed in chronological order:
Bishop Samuel Rutter (1661 - 1662) Storm at Sea – south aisle
Bishop Isaac Barrow (1663 - 1671) Jesus in the Temple – south aisle
Bishop Thomas Wilson (1697 - 1755) Baptism of Jesus – south aisle
Bishop Mark Hildesley (1755 - 1773) The Last Supper – south aisle
Bishop George Murray (1814 - 1827) Christ’s Charge to Peter – north aisle
Bishop William Ward (1827 - 1838) The Marriage Feast at Cana – north aisle
Bishop John Eden (1847 - 1854) Christ Blessing the Children – north aisle
East Windows
The group of three in the apse from north to south are:
The Transfiguration
The Resurrection
The Ascension
South Transept
The Wisdom of Solomon fittingly is in memory of John Moore High Bailiff of Peel who died in 1884
North Transept
Jacob’s Dream is a memorial to Bishop Rowley Hill (1877 - 1887) who was the force behind the building of the church that he wanted to become the Cathedral
West end
There are three windows on the west wall from south to north:
The Nativity in memory of vicar JL Stowell in whose time the foundation stone was laid. (This window was depicted on the Manx 1992 Christmas postage stamps)
The Nativity (the great west window) is post the storm which blew in the window and is in memory of Catherine Lucy Adams who died in April 9th 1904
The Crucifixion is on the north end of the west wall.
Single Lancet window near entrance
The Light of the World is in memory of The Revd Robert Aitken and takes its inspiration from the painting by William Holman Hunt
Altar
Cathedral Altar (movable)
Dark oak table with a lighter wooden top which, judging by the markings on the reredos, has an added top larger than the original altar. The altar top has 5 carved crosses representing the wounds of Christ. The front has a carved Bishop’s Mitre with cross at top in middle. The altar was given in memory of George Cesar Quirk in 1887 (? The last digit is blurred in the paperwork).
Altar
Nunnery Altar (movable)
This altar is again designed to stand against an East wall and came from the Nunnery Chapel, Douglas. It belongs to the time when the Nunnery chapel was refurbished in Victorian times. It is made of dark coloured oak and has a pattern of Gothic arches. It has an altar stone set in the top with the traditional five crosses.
Pew (component)
Congregational pews (movable)
These are made of pitch pine and are not ‘fixed’. It is thought that the ones original to the building may have been destroyed when the roof fell in, in 1903. Ther
Lectern
Brass Lectern (movable)
The brass Eagle Lectern is of a fairly standard design common in churches of the period.
Rail
Communion and Front Pew Rail
The Communion rail is a mid colour oak rail at the high altar supported by non-decorative ironwork. It has Gothic arches which match the front pew rails in the Nave. Access to the Altar is by two central gates. It would appear that some time in the past the communion rail was moved and the apse area extended forward to the Choir as there appears to be iron stubs of another rail in the floor and the insertion of new tiling does not match the Victorian tiles. The black marble step also protrudes into the doorway giving access to the vestry, whether this is an original miscalculation or an alteration is not known, but in order to deal with this the marble step has been chamfered. The front pew rest in the Nave is made of pitch pine and may relate to earlier pews than those currently in the nave and may have been retrieved from the wreckage of the storm. There is a crown on the end of the pew on the north side and a Bishop’s mitre at the end of the pew on the south side. By custom the representative of the Crown e.g. H.E. The Governor sits on the north side and the representatives of the church on the south side.
Choir
Choir stalls
Mid colour oak fashioned in 1935 more elaborately worked than the other pews in the Cathedral with pew ends having finials of poppy heads each with a different design. The choir stalls fretwork have picked up the details of the altar and Bishop Rowley’s chair. At some stage the choir has been pulled forward to allow the insertion of a new back row of pews on both sides to a slightly different design, presumably because of a growing choir. These pews, while still in oak have no elaborate pew ends. This alteration is also apparent when viewing the floor pattern. A further alteration has been the provision of book rests for music.
Throne
Bishop’s Throne (movable)
This modern throne is made from a dark stained oak for the new Cathedral and is in memory of
Albert William Harper who died in September 1979. It has a matching prie dieu.
Candle Holder
Menorah (movable)
The largest Menorah in any Anglican Church standing almost 2 metres tall and is made from spent missiles in Palestinian/Israeli Conflict. It was commissioned for the Anne Frank Exhibition in March 2010 from Yaron Bob, a blacksmith who lives in Israel. The text around the base of the Menorah is a quotation from Isaiah 2: 4 in English, Manx and Hebrew ‘they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks’. ‘Plowshares’ unfortunately in this instance has the American spelling.
Bells
Nominal: 1640 Hz Weight: 380 lbs Diameter: 24" Bell 2 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 34685 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1552 Hz Weight: 378 lbs Diameter: 24.25" Bell 3 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 34686 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1380 Hz Weight: 402 lbs Diameter: 25.5" Bell 4 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 34687 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1235 Hz Weight: 420 lbs Diameter: 26.38" Bell 5 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 34688 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1096 Hz Weight: 462 lbs Diameter: 28" Bell 6 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 34689 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1038 Hz Weight: 532 lbs Diameter: 29.38" Bell 7 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 34690 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 927 Hz Weight: 768 lbs Diameter: 33" Bell 8 of 8
Founded by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 1997
Dove Bell ID: 34691 Tower ID: 15911 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Portable Furnishings and Artworks
Painting of Bishop Wilson - Unknown artist (movable)
Large oil painting of Bishop Thomas Wilson holding a map of the Island in his left hand, formerly hung at Bishopscourt.
Bishop Wilson’s ‘Convocation Chair’ (movable)
Mid oak with brown leather padded seat and two parts padded upright. This chair originally belonged to Thomas Wilson who served as Bishop from 1698 – 1755 and is known as his ‘Convocation Chair’.
Bishop Wilson’s Bureau (movable)
Dark oak bureau on a stand with a number of drawers, some secret and a leaf that opens to reveal the interior of the bureau. There are decorative brass drawer handles and locks. It was removed from Bishopscourt when it was sold.
Bishop Rowley’s Chair’s and matching footstool (movable)
Armchair carved in oak with a central panel that matches the flower pattern on the reredos. The Bishop’s Mitre is carved in the central panel. The carving on the lower panels of the seat and the footstool are reflected in the choir stalls and altar.
Cathedral Chapter Boards
Listed are Bishop/Deans, Archdeacons and Canons from 1896 to the present day. The boards have a light oak veneer. The gold leaf calligraphy for the most part has been executed by Eric Houlgrave and after his death his daughter Deborah Taubman.
Churchyard
Grid reference: SC 246 840
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
The churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Churchyard Structures
War Memorial (freestanding)
The Peel Town War Memorial is located within the Cathedral grounds and is at the centre of a circular lawn. The War Memorials remembers those who died in military service in World War I, World War II and the Afghanistan Conflict. The War Memorial like many on the Isle of Man is in the form of a Celtic Cross made of sandstone and carved by T.H. Royston of Douglas.
Inscribed Stone
- Sculpture and Carvings in the Cathedral grounds
Date Name Artist/Craftworker Details 2007 Viking Festival Slate Cross Andy Southerton made from slate from Peel Hill 2016/2017
Knockaloe Sculpture
Angela Patchett
bronze, stainless steel, glass and granite 2011
Lonan Cross
Ongky Wijana from Bali
Welsh slate 2011
Thorwald’s Cross
Ongky Wijana from Bali
slate from Peel Hill 2011
Maughold Cross
Ongky Wijana from Bali
St Bees Head sandstone 2012
Gaut Cross
Ongky Wijana from Bali
Welsh slate 2012
Thorleif Hnakki’s Cross
Ongky Wijana from Bali
Welsh slate 2012
Thor
Ongky Wijana from Bali
Welsh slate 2012
Calf of Man Cross
Ongky Wijana from Bali
reclaimed slate in the Isle of Man, but probably not Manx slate as the grain is too even 2018
Face in Manx Garden
Pete Yarwood of Bristol
Local sandstone
Inscribed Stone
Labyrinth (Replica of the one at Chartres Cathedral)
Created in Bali by Ongky Wijana 2016. Imported and laid in 2017 by Ken and Chris Stokes. It has inscribed the name of the person laying the foundation stone (H.R.H. The Princess Royal, Patron of the Cathedral’s development campaign) and the person opening it (John Morphet current owner of Bishopscourt).
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
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