Sheffield - Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul

The cathedral dedicated to St Peter and St Paul stands in Church Street on the site of a parish church founded after 1100 by William de Lovetot, a Norman baron. The new church, built in the late-Gothic Perpendicular style, replaced it in the mid-15th century; however, only the choir and the tower remain. The nave was built in the late 18th century and enlarged in 1880. When Sheffield became the see of a bishop in 1914 it was planned to make the present nave the transept of a new and much larger church, but this project was a casualty of the two world wars, leaving the church with an unusual ground plan. In 1966 it was further altered and restored. Note inside the cathedral the font, donated in 1884 by Freemasons, and the marble tomb of the Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1538), which shows him between his two wives; the elaborately carved alabaster figures were originally painted. The unusual portable sedilla of black oak in St Catherine's Chapel dates from the 15th century. The main decoration is provided by the colorful stained glass windows, fitted at the end of the 1960s, in the Chapterhouse. They depict the history of the town. The Chaucer Window shows the miller of Trumpington (in the Reeve's Tale) with his Sheffield knife.