Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Saturday, 27 June 2026

Restoring Salford Cathedral


As a consequence no doubt of a searching made the other day the algorithm delivered to my inbox a video about the recent restoration of both the fabric and significant features of the original decorative scheme in Salford Cathedral.

 
Salford Cathedral  
 
Image: Tripadvisor

Wikipedia has an illustrated history of the building at Salford_Cathedral

I have only ever seen the building from a distance but it  is clearly a fine mid-nineteenth century essay in the eastern English fourteenth century school, copying significant features from Howden, Selby, and Newark. This may reflect the interests and visits of its Sheffield based architect. 


Manchester might not immediately come to mind as good cathedral visiting territory yet in Manchester Cathedral it has a wonderful fifteenth century collegiate church elevated to cathedral rank in 1847, the year before what became in 1852 the cathedral in Salford was completed in one of the heartlands of residual Catholicism.


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