Southern Cathedrals Festival (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Southern Cathedrals Festival is the bringing together of the choirs of Chichester Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral in the penultimate weekend of July. Chichester, Winchester and Salisbury take it in turn to host this event. In September 1904 a service was held in Chichester Cathedral to celebrate the reopening of the main organ of Chichester Cathedral following its restoration in by Hele of Plymouth. This brought together the cathedral choirs of Chichester Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral. In 1905, the cathedral choirs met in Salisbury, followed by Winchester in 1906. Bishop Wilberforce of Chichester died in September 1907, so the return to Chichester had to be delayed until 1908. Thereafter, the "Three Choirs Festival," as it was then known, continued until 1913 when the annual meeting was suspended because of the First World War.