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Did you know?
The glory of the Chapter House is in the descriptive windows designed by Christopher Webb to present the history of Sheffield and its parish church.
The Crypt
This chapel, dedicated as the ‘Chapel of All Saints within the Cathedral Church’ is constructed with arches and vaulting of stone.
It was designed as a columbarium - a place for the storage the ashes of the departed. It was the first chapel set apart for this purpose in an English cathedral.
Within the Crypt is the Regimental Columbarium in which are interred the ashes of some members of the York and Lancaster Regiment.
This space has an underground or womb-like quality. People sometimes retreat here when they find the cathedral space too big and open.
The small, unusual window by Keith New is in memory of William Rowley. It makes use of colourless perspex cylinders glued together into a window pane and painted. The artist had in mind the Revelation of St John the Divine. John sees a vision of the heavenly city: ‘The new Jerusalem whose light was like a stone, most precious, clear as crystal, having twelve foundations named after the apostles, twelve gates as of pearl and the marvel of the glory of light’.
