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Ripon Cathedral

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Ripon Cathedral
Ripon Cathedral
Liberty Court House
Minster Road
Ripon
North Yorkshire
HG4 1QS

Tel: 01765 603 462
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About Ripon Cathedral

For over 1300 years people have been coming to worship and pray at Ripon. The Cathedral building itself is part of this continuing act of worship, begun in the 7th century when Saint Wilfrid built one of England's first stone churches on this site, and still renewed every day. Within the nave and choir, you can see the evidence of 800 years in which master craftsmen have expressed their faith in wood and stone.
Today's church is in fact the fourth to have stood on this site. Saint Wilfrid brought stonemasons, plasterers and glaziers from France and Italy to build his great basilica in AD 672. A contemporary account by Eddius Stephanus tells us:
'In Ripon, Saint Wilfrid built and completed from the foundations to the roof a church of dressed stone, supported by various columns and side-aisles to a great height and many windows, arched vaults and a winding cloister.'
Devastated by the English king in AD 948 as a warning to the Archbishop of York, only the crypt of Wilfrid's church survived but today this tiny 7th century chapel rests complete beneath the later grandeur of Archbishop Roger de Pont l'Evque's 12th century minster.
A second minster - built to minister the love of God to the local community - soon arose at Ripon, but it too perished - this time in 1069



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