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• - Founded by St Patrick in 445 A.D. The official site offers a virtual tour, illustrated history and visitor information. Includes a list of past abbots, bishops and archbishops. The music section includes details of early organs.
  
• - The official site includes images and brief history of this cathedral designed by Pugin.
  
• - The official site provides a history of the building designed by George Gilbert Scott, with a special section on Gwyneth Leech's murals.
  
• - Originally the Chapel of St Mary, built in 1814 to the designs of James Gillespie Graham, it became a cathedral in 1878. Brief history; interactive plan leads to photographs and details.
  
• - The official site give a history of this remarkable Modernist building completed in 1967. Designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd, the circular plan and spiked elevation is intended to evoke Christ's crown of thorns.
  
• - A series of pages from Know Britain exploring the symbolism of the ruined medieval cathedral, and the contrast of the modern cathedral.
  
• - Mersey World provides a photograph and brief details of the largest Anglican cathedral. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, it is a 20th-century building in a traditional mould.
  
• - David Bowman argues that Wren's floor plan is the encoded image of the kabbalistic Tree of Life. Illustrated analysis from Aiwaz.net.
  
• - Presents the history, architecture, art, treasures, and details of their amenities and facilities.
  
• - A tour of the inside of Ripon Cathedral, with some good photographs. From Stem Computer Systems.
  
• - The official site includes an illustrated history and virtual tour of this Church of Ireland cathedral begun in 1899 in the Hiberno-Romanesque style.
  
• - Opened in 1817, the cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church was the first of many buildings in the city designed by Archibald Simpson.
  
• - The official site of the primary Catholic Cathedral in England and Wales includes a brief history and tour of the Byzantine-style building, designed by Victorian architect John Francis Bentley.
  
• - The official site of the magnificent Baroque church designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1673. It has an illustrated chronology and 360-degree panoramas that require QuickTime VR.
  
• - History from Napier University of the High Kirk of Edinburgh, Cathedral of the Church of Scotland.
  
• - This Britannia guide has a brief introduction and list of cathedrals, organised by age and type, with photographs taken from M.J.Taber, "The Cathedrals of England" (1905).
  
• - Official site giving history and visitor information.
  
• - BBC feature spotlighting the English stone mason and history of Gothic architecture in Britain, with links to prime examples.