The Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the city of Bristol. Located in the Clifton area of the city, it is the seat and mother church of the Diocese of Clifton and is known as Clifton Cathedral. It has been a Grade II* Listed Building since 2000. A 2014 study noted it to be the only Catholic church built in the 1970s to have been Grade II* listed. It was the first cathedral built under new guidelines arising from the Second Vatican Council.
Clifton Cathedral
Bristol’s Clifton Cathedral (background left) with the Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles, its predecessor (foreground right)
Nave of Clifton Cathedral, showing concrete structures and engineering, acoustic baffles and 'hidden' windows (including star beam in lower part, with hexagonal cutouts)
Detail of Concrete, showing marks of timber formwork, Clifton Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Bristol, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bristol. The cathedral was originally an abbey dedicated to St Augustine, founded in 1140 and consecrated in 1148. It became the cathedral of the new diocese of Bristol in 1542, after the dissolution of the monasteries. It is a Grade I listed building.
The west front of Bristol Cathedral
Original caption: The Cathedral Church of Bristoll South Side'
Bristol Cathedral interior 1872
Plan of Bristol Cathedral published in Encyclopædia Britannica, 1902
