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has small round-headed windows. The external window openings are circular. There is a tunnel-vaulted passage between the inside and outside window openings of the clerestory. The nave aisles are vaulted, the main roof of the nave is a trussed rafter roof, with tie-beams between each bay – a late 19th
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Southwell
Minster Chorale is Southwell Minster’s auditioned adult voluntary choir, and is directed by the Minster’s Assistant Director of Music, Jonathan Allsopp. Founded in 1994, the Chorale’s purpose is to regularly sing for services, especially at times when the Cathedral Choir is not available.
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The current
Cathedral Choir owes its form to the addition of boy choristers to the vicars choral, and the vicars themselves eventually being replaced by lay singers, known as lay clerks. For a large period of time, the format remained very similar – a number of boy choristers singing with a mixture
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Services have been sung in
Southwell Minster for centuries, and the tradition of daily choral worship continues to thrive. There was originally a college of vicars choral who took the lead as singers, one or two of whom were known as rector chori, or 'ruler of the choir'. The vicars choral lived in
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The western facade has pyramidal spires on its towers – a unique feature today, though common in the 12th century. The existing spires date only from 1880, but they replace those destroyed by fire in 1711, which are documented in old illustrations. The large west window dates from the 15th century.
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Cathedral Choir comprises the boy choristers, girl choristers, and lay clerks who, between them, provide music for seven choral services each week during school terms. The boys and girl choristers usually sing as separate groups, combining for particularly important occasions such as Christmas
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in style, and was completed in 1241. It has transepts, thus separating the choir into a western and eastern arm. The choir is of two storeys, with no gallery or triforium. The lower storey has clustered columns with multiform pointed arches, the upper storey has twin lancet arches in each bay. The
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Cathedral Choir has recorded and broadcast extensively over the years. Regular concerts and international tours are a feature of the choir’s work, alongside more local events such as civic services and the annual Four Choirs’ Evensong together with the cathedral choirs of Derby, Leicester and
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By contrast with the nave arcade, the arches of the crossing are tall, rising to nearly the full height of the nave walls. The capitals of the east crossing piers depict scenes from the life of Jesus. Two stages of the inside of the central tower can be seen at the crossing, with cable and wave
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The rood screen dates from 1320 to 1340, and is an outstanding example of the
Decorated style. It has an east and west facade, separated by a vaulted space with flying ribs. The east facade, of two storeys, is particularly richly decorated, with niches on the lower storey with ogee arches, and
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Chorale also regularly goes on tour; in recent years they have toured to the Channel Islands and the Scilly Isles. A 2020 tour to Schwerin, Germany was planned (together with Lincoln Cathedral Consort), but this was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Chorale also visits other
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The nave, transepts, central tower and two western towers of the Norman church which replaced the Anglo-Saxon minster remain as an outstanding achievement of severe
Romanesque design. With the exception of fragments mentioned above, they are the oldest part of the existing church.
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Despite the August 1540 plans to make
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The central tower's two ornamental stages place it high among England's surviving Norman towers. The lower order has intersecting arches, the upper order plain arches. The north porch has a tunnel vault, and is decorated with intersecting arches.
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In addition to its regular round of services, one of the highlights of the Chorale's year is its annual performance of Handel's Messiah in the run-up to Christmas; this concert is a staple of the Minster's Christmas programme.
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of lay clerks and vicars choral, slowly becoming a group of entirely lay singers. Eventually, in 2005, a girls’ choir was started by the Assistant Director of Music, who have now been formally admitted as girl choristers.
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which suppressed (among others) almost all collegiate churches: at Southwell the prebendaries were given pensions and the estates sold, while the church continued as the parish church on the petitions of the parishioners.
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was coming to an end, and despite its collegiate rather than monastic status, Southwell Minster was suppressed specifically in order that it could be included in the plans initiated by
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fulfilled a similar function in other parts of the diocese. The church was collegiate from its foundation until 1841, although the college was twice dissolved and re-founded during the
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of the choir springs from clustered shafts which rest on corbels. The vault has ridge ribs. The square east end of the choir has two stories each of four lancet windows.
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decoration on the lower order and zigzag on the upper. The transepts have three stories with semi-circular arches, like the nave, but without aisles.
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and tower destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ. By 1720 repairs had been completed, now giving a flat panelled ceiling to the nave and transepts.
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and Easter services, and notable events in the life of the minster. Regular concerts and international tours are a feature of the choir’s work.
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The nave is of seven bays, plus a separated western bay. The columns of the arcade are short and circular, with small scalloped capitals. The
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Beckett, John (2012). "The Victorian Church of England in the Midlands: The Founding of the Diocese of Southwell, 1876–1884".
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in great detail. The Norman reconstruction of the church began in 1108, probably as a rebuilding of the
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learning, hence its designation as a minster. The minster draws its
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1552:Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England
1191:Plan of vestibule and passage to the chapter house
519:as it was refounded in 1543 by Act of Parliament.
1663:Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth (1979).
515:The church suffered less than many others in the
2139:Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society
1289:The Norman nave, built in the early 12th century
754:Southwell rood screen (pulpitum) from the choir
686:Compartments of the nave, interior and exterior
2699:English Gothic architecture in Nottinghamshire
1730:Visitations and Memorials of Southwell Minster
1630:A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
1582:Listed buildings in Southwell, Nottinghamshire
863:Assistant Director of Music – Jonathan Allsopp
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1406:The stalls and canopies of the chapter house
1667:. London: Penguin Books. pp. 319–333.
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2049:"Autumn Excursion: Visit to Southwell"
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2089:"St Mary, Southwell, Nottinghamshire"
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2053:Transactions of the Thoroton Society
1301:Nave with the font on the right side
906:adding citations to reliable sources
714:Rib vault of Southwell Minster choir
2739:Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
2036:. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
1593:named after the town and cathedral.
1557:List of Gothic Cathedrals in Europe
1347:High altar and east window of choir
1335:and choir, looking west to the nave
354:, when it was reconstructed in the
336:. It is a grade I listed building.
326:diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
2030:Killpack, William Bennett (1839).
855:' amidst the 'Leaves of Southwell'
813:Canon Chancellor – position vacant
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318:bishop of Southwell and Nottingham
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2015:. London: Edward Arnold. p.
1904:. Port Stroud: The History Press
1788:. London: George Bell & Sons.
1100:William Weaver Ringrose 1876–1879
989:– Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve
1863:Livett, Greville Mairis (1883).
1733:. Camden Society. p. xcvii.
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2130:Seward, Albert Charles (1935).
1516:The central tower and transepts
1246:The minster from the north-east
1234:The minster from the north-west
1112:George Thomas Francis 1929–1946
1106:Robert William Liddle 1888–1918
893:needs additional citations for
835:Priest Vicar – David McCollough
437:of 1086 recorded the Southwell
2704:Anglican cathedrals in England
2246:Southwell Minster Virtual Tour
2185:Webweaver (11 February 2019).
2047:Thompson, A. Hamilton (1911).
1963:10.1179/0047729X12Z.0000000003
1869:. Southwell: John Whittingham.
1750:. London: Phillimore. p.
1727:Leach, Arthur Francis (1891).
1109:Harry William Tupper 1918–1929
599:dissolution of the monasteries
560:Dissolution of the Monasteries
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2075:English Cathedrals in Colour
1587:Southwell Preparatory School
457:floor and late 11th century
79:Shown within Nottinghamshire
1922:Page, William, ed. (1910).
1803:. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
1562:English Gothic architecture
1166:Ground plans of the minster
1103:W Arthur Marriott 1879–1888
869:Head Verger – Andy McIntosh
860:Rector Chori – Paul Provost
503:). The elaborately carved "
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2724:Churches completed in 1300
2156:Pevsner, Nikolaus (1945).
1902:England's Other Cathedrals
1715:. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
1540:Chapter house portal, 1801
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310:Southwell, Nottinghamshire
125:Southwell, Nottinghamshire
2714:Grade I listed cathedrals
2251:Southwell Minster website
2113:Dugdale, William (1655).
1799:Cormack, Patrick (1984).
1203:Plan of the chapter house
838:Priest Vicar – Erika Kirk
511:Reformation and civil war
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1985:"History of the Diocese"
1744:Summers, Norman (1974).
1179:Plan of the minster 1839
1155:Southwell Music Festival
1149:Southwell Music Festival
233:Southwell and Nottingham
154:www.southwellminster.org
2160:. London: King Penguin.
2158:The Leaves of Southwell
2009:Ridding, Laura (1908).
1824:Thorold, Henry (1986).
1782:Dimock, Arthur (1898).
1567:Romanesque architecture
1157:, held in late August.
769:The Leaves of Southwell
613:, as a replacement for
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2073:Little, Bryan (1972).
1928:British History Online
1900:Jeffery, Paul (2012).
1883:. London: Robert Hale
1879:Jeffery, Paul (2004).
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1418:Chapter house capital
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1116:Robert James Ashfield
1089:Herbert Stephen Irons
1055:Samuel Wise 1754–1755
1052:William Lee 1718–1754
1028:William Colbecke 1586
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1046:George Chappell 1690
1043:Edward Chappell 1661
1040:John Hutchinson 1628
1034:Edward Manestie 1596
1019:George Thetford 1568
902:improve this article
567:extensively restored
360:Early English Gothic
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2638:Newcastle upon Tyne
1313:Nave of the minster
1122:David James Lumsden
1037:Francis Dogson 1622
1016:George Vincent 1519
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