Parish life the best known annual festivity at arundel cathedral is the corpus christi celebration in late may early june.
Carpet of flowers arundel 2015.
Spend time afterwards in the quaint streets of arundel where you will find cafés restaurants craft and antique shops.
Carpet of flowers and procession are cancelled this year.
Find out more below.
For over 100 years arundel cathedral has celebrated the feast of corpus christi with a festival of flowers featuring a magnificent 90 foot carpet of flowers filling the cathedral s central aisle.
The cathedral is worth a visit anytime and this is a lovely british city to walk around it is full of unique shops country pubs and walks by the river arun.
This wednesday and thursday 14 and 15 june arundel cathedral celebrates the feast of corpus christi with its world famous carpet of flowers.
Corpus christi carpet of flowers 2019.
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Now famous for its carpet of flowers down the aisle which is free to visit corpus christi is a special time to visit arundel.
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For more than 140 years arundel cathedral has celebrated the christian feast day of corpus christi with a festival of flowers.
For over 140 years arundel cathedral has celebrated the feast of corpus christi with a magnificent festival of flowers featuring a world famous carpet of flowers in the central aisle of the cathedral and a procession of the blessed sacrament from the cathedral to the courtyard of arundel castle where benediction is given.
The custom looked in peril when in the mid 1950s the norfolk estate begun to reduce its ground staff but the headteacher of tortington park girls school offered to supply flowers.
Arundel cathedral corpus christi carpet of flowers 2012.
A wonderful visit to view the carpet of flowers which is created each year for corpus christi.
It s now too late for this year plan your visit for next year which is on thursday 31st may.
After mass the blessed sacrament is carried in procession with hymns.
Her school gardeners and some pupils would then help lay the carpet.
As well as floral displays around different parts of the cathedral the highlight is the full length of the aisle decorated with flowers in a design unique to each year.
However when in 1969 the school closed the carpet again seemed in peril.
This feast honouring the body and blood of christ is celebrated by the laying down of a carpet of flowers along the centre aisle of the church.
