Chester Cathedral History Chart

AD

70 

Chester founded as a Roman fortress Cathedral fom City Walls

907

St Werburgh's Minster founded

1092

Minster turned into a Benedictine abbey

1250 

Norman church rebuilt on Gothic lines

1540

Monastery dissolved by Henry VIII, church finished

1541

Diocese of Chester created, church given back and renamed Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary

1868

Restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott

1881

South transept no longer used as a parish church

1921 - 27

Stained glass added to Cathedral cloisters

1961

The Carter Shapland west window introduced into the nave

1975

New bell tower opened

Choir School Closed

1992

Undercroft discovered. Westminster windows installed. 900th anniversary of the founding of St Werburgh's Abbey

1996

Restoration of Main Nave floor, and under floor heating begun.

1997

Completion of installation of under floor heating in Nave.