Wakefield Cathedral blue plaque

Wakefield Cathedral blue plaque is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.

Wakefield Cathedral, originally founded as a parish church in 1181, became a cathedral in 1888 when Wakefield was chosen as the seat of the new Diocese of Wakefield; it serves as the ecclesiastical headquarters for the diocese and is an important landmark in the history of the Church of England's development in West Yorkshire.