Truro Cathedral

The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Truro is a Church of England cathedral within the town of Truro, Cornwall. It became built among 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival layout through John Loughborough Pearson at the website of the parish church of St Mary. It is certainly one of simplest three cathedrals inside the United Kingdom with three spires. Construction commenced in 1880 to a design with the aid of the leading Gothic Revival architect John Loughborough Pearson. Truro was the primary cathedral to be constructed on a brand new website in England seeing that Salisbury Cathedral in 1220.

It turned into built at the web site of the sixteenth-century parish church of St Mary the Virgin, a building inside the Perpendicular style with a spire 128 feet tall. The very last services in St Mary's have been held on Sunday 3 October 1880 and the church become demolished that month, leaving most effective the south aisle, which was retained to function the parish church. From 24 October 1880 until 1887 a temporary wood constructing on an adjacent web site served because the cathedral. The seats have been free and unappropriated, accommodated fewer than four hundred people and became extremely warm in summer time and bloodless in iciness. It turned into on this constructing that Benson introduced the brand new nighttime service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve, 1880.