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Aug 2020
Extension plans for Ripon Cathedral on display
Plans for the £6 million extension of Ripon Cathedral have gone on display at a public exhibition inside the ancient building.
Running until the end of September, the exhibition is designed to enable all interested parties within the community to view the plans and provide comment, which will help in the preparation of a formal planning application for submission to Harrogate Borough Council.
If successful, plans would see the first major extension in hundreds of years, for a building containing the oldest built fabric of any English cathedral - St Wilfrid’s Crypt - dating back to 672 AD.
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The church attracts visitors and pilgrims from around the world and in autumn 2019, launched the Ripon Cathedral Renewed project.
Key elements of the plan are the provision of toilets. which will include Ripon’s only adult changing room; a cafe and creation of rehearsal space for Ripon Cathedral Choir, which currently rehearses in a former burial vault.
With the provision of new storage space, it is also intended that large areas within the cathedral will be opened up to the public for the first time in centuries.
The plans are part of the cathedral’s strategic vision Growing God’s Kingdom which aims to see the cathedral as a force for good, serving both the church and wider community – locally, regionally and nationally.
When the Renewed project was launched, the Dean of Ripon, The Very Revd John Dobson, said:
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