Bradford Cathedral Altar

Today we visited Bradford Cathedral, one of our reasons being to view an exhibition of watercolours by Yorkshire artist, Ashley Jackson. For anyone in the area, these wonderful paintings are on display in the Cathedral until tomorrow, then the exhibition finishes. While there, I took the heaven-sent opportunity to take some photographs, one of which was of the altar and East window. History tells us that the Cathedral was originally the parish church of Bradford and became the Cathedral Church of St. Peter Bradford in 1919. The East Window shown was one of the earliest commissions carried out by William Morris and Co. in 1863 and was re-set a century later. The statues over the altar are of St. Peter and St. Paul. St. Peter is the patron saint of this church and is shown with his symbol, the keys of Heaven. The statue of St. Paul is remembered for his missionary journeys and is depicted with a book to symbolise the many letters he wrote. While we were there we were treated to a recital by the cathedral organist. Well, it wasn’t really a recital, he was rehearsing, but since we were the only visitors there at the time we regarded it as being just for us, which made our visit very special indeed. The organ, for any organ buffs like my husband, has the most beautiful, mellow tone. Now we’re diarising all future scheduled organ recitals