St Philip's Cathedral IV
The late evening at St Philip's Cathedral, in Birmingham.
Birmingham’s St Philip’s Cathedral has been the home of the city’s Anglican diocese since 1905, almost 200 years after it was consecrated.
Built in the English Baroque style by Thomas Archer in 1715, it was initially a parish church, but was chosen over the older St Martin’s to be the city’s cathedral.
The building was enlarged by the Victorians in the 1880s, who installed stained-glass windows by Edwards Burne-Jones, depicting the Nativity, Crucifixion, Ascension and the Last Judgement.
It is the third-smallest cathedral in England – after Derby and Chelmsford – and survived bombing in the Second World War to be restored.
St Philip's Cathedral IV
The late evening at St Philip's Cathedral, in Birmingham.
Birmingham’s St Philip’s Cathedral has been the home of the city’s Anglican diocese since 1905, almost 200 years after it was consecrated.
Built in the English Baroque style by Thomas Archer in 1715, it was initially a parish church, but was chosen over the older St Martin’s to be the city’s cathedral.
The building was enlarged by the Victorians in the 1880s, who installed stained-glass windows by Edwards Burne-Jones, depicting the Nativity, Crucifixion, Ascension and the Last Judgement.
It is the third-smallest cathedral in England – after Derby and Chelmsford – and survived bombing in the Second World War to be restored.