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Peterborough Cathedral wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for Heritage & Education Centre

Peterborough Cathedral wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for Heritage & Education Centre

27-01-2012 10:00

Peterborough Cathedral has received a “First-Round Pass” from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the creation of a Heritage & Education Centre.

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Christmas Message from the Bishop of Peterborough

Christmas Message from the Bishop of Peterborough

19-12-2011 16:58

What sort of year have you had? Some of us could say very quickly, ‘a good year’ or ‘a bad year’. Some might want to say, ‘a busy year’ or ‘an empty year’. For most of us ‘a mixed year’ would probably cover it.

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Cathedral campaign wins communication award

Cathedral campaign wins communication award

14-12-2011 09:14

Peterborough Cathedral’s ‘Peterborough 900’ campaign has won the Campaign of the Year award at a local communications awards ceremony.

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related events

Related Events

As such a wonderful storehouse of historical, archeological and religious points of interest, the Cathedral regularly holds a number of events that are by way of their very nature, educational and cultural. Hosting a range of events that encourages continued learning allows visitors to discover both something of the building as an ancient sacred space and also of the Christian Faith and the way that we share our religion as a working church.

We host an Open Day every year that encourages visitors of all ages to learn more about the Cathedral. Our main educational events for children, include our Tudor Days held in July and our guided school tours that take place throughout the year allowing school parties to discover this great Cathedral church.

For adults our key educational events are those mainly organised by the Cathedral’s various groups and associations such as the Reading Group and Film Society or the Peterborough Theological Society.

In addition to this however, we do often welcome outside parties into the Cathedral to arrange exhibitions that have a historic, artistic, musical or cultural nature to them that can provoke thought and provide additional opportunity to learn.

An example of an activity such as this in recent months has been The Ridley Mission Group who constructed a Peter’s Journey exhibition to encourage visitors to follow the journey of one of our 3 patron saints. We also host a Prisons Exhibition in November which gives a real insight into life in prison and how prisoners are rehabilitated back into the community. We also recently welcomed the Lyre of Ur exhibition displaying a replica of the oldest string instrument ever found and there are more in the pipeline for the coming months.

Upcoming events

Choral Evensong: The Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Choral Evensong: The Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

06-02-2012 (17:30)

Peterborough Cathedral Choir will celebrate The Accession of Queen Elizabeth II with choral evensong. This date marks 60 years since Queen Elizabeth succeeded the throne.

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Sung Eurcharist

Sung Eucharist: Widor Mass

19-02-2012 (10:30)

A fantastic opportunity to hear Widor’s epic mass in a liturgical context, sung by the combined forces of Peterborough Male Voice Choir and Peterborough Cathedral Choir.

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