Taken from the car, this enormous building dominates the small town of Arundel. The Friends of the cathedral have a website containing information about the church.
The Cathedral was founded by Henry 15th Duke of Norfolk, whose old established family own extensive estates around Arundel, and the building was completed on 1st July 1873, to designs of Joseph Hansom, inventor of the Hansom cab. The original dedication was to St Philip Neri, founder of the Oratorian religious order. When the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton was created in 1965, the church of St Philip at Arundel was made its cathedral and rededicated to Our Lady and St Philip. In 1973 there was a further change in dedication to the recently canonised martyr St Philip Howard.
The Cathedral is faced with Bath stone and is in the French gothic style. The planned spire was never built over the north porch. The west façade has figures of Christ and his apostles and a statue of Mary with her divine child, together with a large rose window adorned with stained glass.
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