OS grid reference TG2233508547 Country England Website sjbcathedral.org.uk Opened 1910 Architect George Gilbert Scott Jr. | Location Norwich, Norfolk Denomination Roman Catholic Consecrated 1910 Phone +44 1603 624615 | |
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Address Unthank Rd, Norwich NR2 2PA, UK Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar Norwich Cathedral, Northampton Cathedral, Wrexham Cathedral, Middlesbrough Cathedral, Cathedral of St Michael a Profiles | ||
St john the baptist cathedral norwich
The Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.
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History
The cathedral, located on Unthank Road, was constructed between 1882 and 1910 to designs by George Gilbert Scott, Jr. as a parish church dedicated to John the Baptist, on the site of the Norwich City Gaol. The funds for its construction were provided by Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk. He funded it as a generous gift to the Catholics of Norwich as a sign of thanksgiving for his first marriage to Lady Flora Abney-Hastings.
In 1976, it was consecrated as the cathedral church for the newly erected Diocese of East Anglia and the seat of the Bishop of East Anglia. In 2014, for the first time since 1558, a Pontifical High Mass was celebrated in this episcopal see's cathedral.
It is one of two cathedrals in the city of Norwich, the other being the Church of England Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, completed in the Norman style in 1145. It is the second largest Roman Catholic cathedral in England.
Parish
The cathedral's parish also covers Holy Apostles Church, West Earlham, in a suburb of Norwich and it also offers a Sunday evening Mass at St Mark's, the Church of England parish church of Lakenham.