Wakefield Cathedral (aka the Cathedral Church of All Saints)
West Yorkshire, England
(photos: cathedral by Wikipedia; box location by Sally Hickenbottom/WNS; nestbox by WNS)Wakefield Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is the Anglican cathedral for the Diocese of Wakefield and seat of the Bishop of Wakefield. Originally the parish church, it has Anglo Saxon origins and after enlargement and rebuilding has the tallest spire in Yorkshire. It is the tallest building in the City of Wakefield. The cathedral, situated in the centre of Wakefield on a hill on Kirkgate, is built on the site of a Saxon church, evidence of which was uncovered in 1900 when extensions to the east end were made. A church in Wakefield is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. In 1090 William II gave the church and land in Wakefield to Lewes Priory in Sussex and shortly after that a Norman church was built. The Norman church was rebuilt in 1329, and apart from the tower and spire, rebuilt and enlarged in 1469. The church was reconstructed and altered at various times and its spire, damaged in a violent gale, was renewed in 1823. Up to the 16th century the church was known by the Anglo Saxon All Hallows and after the Reformation changed to All Saints. The cathedral's large four-stage west tower has angle buttresses and a very tall crocketed spire behind an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles and at 247 feet (75 m) tall, is the highest spire in Yorkshire. The nestbox was installed in December 2013 on the parapet.
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there won't be a cam until there are nesting peregrines website link:
www.wakefieldnaturalists.orgJust a note, this naturalists society has been operating since 1851!
