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The Cathedral Church of St Marie is the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Sheffield , England . It lies in a slightly hidden location, just off the main shopping street in the city, but signals its presence with a tall Spire . It is an especially fine example of an English Roman Catholic Church, with much fine interior decoration. Re-ordering of the Sanctuary following the Second Vatican Council , has been sensitive. There are several particularly notable side altars, as well as statues and painted tiles. HISTORY The Reformation Before the 2006 ).. Mass was celebrated in a few houses of gentry in Sheffield, including in a house on Fargate that belonged to the Duke of Norfolk, which had a hidden chapel in its roofHarman, R. & Minnis, J. (2004) ''Pevsner City Guides: Sheffield'', pp57–60. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300105851. The establishment of the Church of St Marie The Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th and early 19th century allowed Catholics to worship more openly. Sheffield Catholics bought the ageing house, which stood where the Next shop is today. They built a small chapel in its back garden on a site which is now between the Mortuary and the Blessed Sacrament Chapels. The names of the priests who served Sheffield before the Cathedral was built and the dates of their deaths are on the wall of the Mortuary Chapel. The rest of the land where the Cathedral now stands became a cemetery (Bodies from the cemetery were moved to the new Catholic cemetery at St. Bede’s in Rotherham and work on St Marie’s began). By 1846 the chapel was too small and the young priest, Fr. Pratt, was keen to build a church for the expanding town. A leading local architect called M.E. Hadfield designed St Marie’s, based on a 14th century church at Heckington in Lincolnshire. The church was expensively decorated with the aid of generous donations from the Duke Of Norfolk , his mother and parishioners. Fr. Pratt died while the church was being built and was buried at St. Bede’s. However, a stonemason, who had often heard him say he wanted to be buried in St Marie’s, dug up the coffin and re‑buried Fr. Pratt in a tomb he had prepared near the altar. Fr Pratt’s body still lies there and a plaque marks the spot, but his effigy has been moved to beneath the altar in the Mortuary chapel. St Marie’s was completed in 1850 and opened on September 11th. Building the church cost more than £10,500 – a huge sum in those days – and it was not until 1889 that the church was free from debt. The Parish of St Marie’s, which covered the whole of Sheffield, became part of the '' (accessed 25 February 2006 ).. St Marie's as a Cathedral On the May 30 1980, the new Diocese Of Hallam was created and St. Marie’s became a Cathedral. Bishop Moverley was installed as its first bishop and served until his death in 1996, after which Bishop John Rawsthorne became the second Bishop Of Hallam . SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |