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The Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit, Guildford, commonly known as Guildford Cathedral, is the Anglican cathedral in Guildford, Surrey, England. Earl Onslow donated the first 6 acres (2.4 ha) of land on which the cathedral stands, with Viscount Bennett, a former Prime Minister of Canada, purchasing the remaining land and donating it to the cathedral in 1947.
Holy Trinity Church was initially used as the cathedral for the new Diocese of Guildford, but it was judged too small for the task, and in 1928 the diocese decided to build a new cathedral. Work began in 1933, but the Second World War delayed the construction considerably, and it was not consecrated until 1961, although services had been held ...
According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, 137,183 people lived in the borough of Guildford.Of these, 60.23% identified themselves as Christian, 1.98% were Muslim, 0.95% were Hindu, 0.61% were Buddhist, 0.23% were Jewish, 0.15% were Sikh, 0.34% followed another religion, 27.78% claimed no religious affiliation and 7.73% did not state their religion.
Guildford Cathedral. The Diocese of Guildford is a Church of England diocese covering eight and half of the eleven districts in Surrey, much of north-east Hampshire and a parish in Greater London. The cathedral is Guildford Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Guildford. Of the two provinces of the church, it is in the Province of Canterbury.
Watercolour of the interior of St Mary's by John Hassell (about 1824) The altar and East Window in 2016. A stone Anglo-Saxon church built in about 1040 AD the tower of which still stands today, [3] St Mary's Church is believed to stand on the same site as Guildford's first church which was probably a small timber structure built in about 600 AD.
Guildford Cathedral: Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit Anglican Canterbury 1936 1961 1965 NK NK NK NK N/A 48.8 77 4 Rushworth and Dreaper Hereford Cathedral: Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelbert
Under George V, the Diocese of Guildford was created out of the north-eastern part of the Diocese of Winchester in 1927. The diocese covers the western half of the County of Surrey . The see is in the town of Guildford where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit which was built as a cathedral 1936 to 1965.
Katherine Dienes also known as Katherine Dienes-Williams (born in Wellington, 10 January 1970) [1] is a New Zealand-born organist, conductor and composer.She is currently Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral [2] and is the first woman to hold the most senior musical post in a Church of England cathedral.