@onewing@onewing Thank you Babs for your comment lots of history and changes a brief timeline:- it became a Cathedral in 1919, the tower section here is the west end tower, which provided a song room and offices for the Cathedral staff, was an addition added as late as 1950's.
Two carved stones, probably parts of a Saxon preaching cross, have been found on this site, they indicate that Christians worshipped here since Paulinus came on a mission to Northumbria in AD 627.
Alice de Lacy, gave a grant to the parish of Bradford which is recorded in the register of the Archbishop of York in 1281. Richard de Halton is named as vicar of the parish by 1283, by 1327 there was a stone church on the site.
During the fourteenth century the church was rebuilt and some of the older masonry used in the reconstruction of the Nave. The Nave arcades, the oldest parts of the present building, were completed in 1458. A clerestory was added by the end of the fifteenth century. the Tower in the perpendicular style was added to the west end and finished in 1508.
There were several changes to the building in the eighteenth century when it was still Bradford's only church, the oak timbers of the roof date from 1724 :)
@louannwarren Thank you for your fav and comment Lou Ann this shot covers only about half of the building, as British Cathedrals go its regarded as one of the smallest, lol:)
Two carved stones, probably parts of a Saxon preaching cross, have been found on this site, they indicate that Christians worshipped here since Paulinus came on a mission to Northumbria in AD 627.
Alice de Lacy, gave a grant to the parish of Bradford which is recorded in the register of the Archbishop of York in 1281. Richard de Halton is named as vicar of the parish by 1283, by 1327 there was a stone church on the site.
During the fourteenth century the church was rebuilt and some of the older masonry used in the reconstruction of the Nave. The Nave arcades, the oldest parts of the present building, were completed in 1458. A clerestory was added by the end of the fifteenth century. the Tower in the perpendicular style was added to the west end and finished in 1508.
There were several changes to the building in the eighteenth century when it was still Bradford's only church, the oak timbers of the roof date from 1724 :)