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Christopher Chapman is a white man with short grey hair wearing a pair grey casual shirt and sitting in front of a bookcase, cupboard and fireplace.

Written reflection

Nature

Prayer

Spirituality

Vocation

Ripening: reflections for a changing season

Christopher Chapman reflects on signs of God in the changing season.

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Written reflection

Easter

Good Friday

Music

Music for Good Friday and Easter

Singer Carris Jones writes about music that illuminates the mystery and meanings of Good Friday and Easter.

Pipework of the great organ

Organ recitals

Our extensive programme of organ events, including Sunday and Celebrity Recitals, Meditations, and Eucharists showcase the power of the Cathedral’s Grand Organ.

Fig. 1. ‘The Revised design’: South elevation, drawn by Hawksmoor, c.1686 (© All Souls College, Oxford, G.81)

3. Upper elevations and west end, c. 1685

The dramatic increase in funding from 1686 was the main factor behind a major revision to the design that can be dated from mid-1685.

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6. The western towers, c. 1685-1710

Wren had always intended a belfry in one of the towers at the west end of the Cathedral.

Fig. 3. Study by Hawksmoor in half-elevation, section and plan, for a mausoleum-like rotunda on the west side of the piazza, c.1696–97 (WRE/7/1/3)

7. Churchyard and paving and miscellaneous drawings, c. 1690-1713

The earliest known scheme to improve the Cathedral churchyard is an outline study by Wren and Hawksmoor, drawn over a survey of the whole precinct prepared by William Dickinson.

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Written reflection

Evelyn Underhill

George Herbert

Julian of Norwich

Margaret Spufford

Mysticism

Mystics

Thomas Traherne

Down-to-earth mysticism

Ellen Clark-King explores mysticism through some well-known and lesser-known mystics this October.

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Written reflection

Bible

Christ

Jesus

Lent

New Testament

Lent

‘To see thee more clearly, day by day.'

Maggi Dawn guides us through the season of Lent.

Cally is a white woman with white hair and glasses wearing a clerical collar under a black shirt and grey tweed jacket. She is in front of a mantlepiece decorated with card, framed photos and an Icon, and a lit log burner. She is smiling.

Written reflection

Mary

Mary

Cally Hammond reflects on Mary, Mother of Christ, for the month of May.