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The monastic community was founded by Saint David, Abbot of Menevia, who died in 589. Between 645 and 1097, the community was attacked many times by raiders, including the Vikings; however it was of such note as both a religious and an intellectual centre that King Alfred summoned help from the monastic community at St Davids in rebuilding the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Wessex.
Williams was knighted by Queen Victoria in her 1894 Birthday Honours, YMCA's silver jubilee year, as well as receiving the Freedom of the City of London. [4] After his death in 1905, he was commemorated by a stained-glass window in the nave of Westminster Abbey. Sir George Williams is buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
List of organists of St Albans Cathedral. The posts of organist and master of the music at St Albans Cathedral have been held by a number of well-known musicians, including Peter Hurford, Stephen Darlington and Barry Rose. Andrew Lucas is the current Master of the Music. [81]
St Martin's was the private chapel of Queen Bertha of Kent (died in or after 601) before Saint Augustine of Canterbury arrived from Rome in 597. Queen Bertha was a Christian Frankish princess who arrived in England with her chaplain, Bishop Liudhard. Her pagan husband, Æthelberht of Kent, allowed her to continue to practise her religion by ...
The Revd William Taylor. St Helen's Bishopsgate is an Anglican church in London. It is located in Great St Helen's, off Bishopsgate. It is the largest surviving parish church in the City of London. Several notable figures are buried there, and it contains more monuments than any other church in Greater London except Westminster Abbey, hence it ...
The cathedral's builder was G. W. Booth and the clerk of works was Edwin Morgan. [1] St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral has four main doors: the west, east, north and south doors. The cathedral's main entrance is the ornate west entrance, from Palmerston Place, which features Saint Peter and the key to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jonathan Rees-Williams (born 10 February 1949) is a British cathedral organist, ... Lichfield Cathedral 1978 - 1991; St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1991 - 2002;
Katherine Dienes. Katherine Dienes also known as Katherine Dienes-Williams (born in Wellington, 10 January 1970) [1] is a New Zealand -born organist, conductor and composer. She is currently Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral [2] and is the first woman to hold the most senior musical post in a Church of England cathedral.