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George Becher Blomfield
1801–1885
An English clergyman and antiquary, he wrote careful studies of Chester Cathedral that still interest readers of local history and architecture. His work combines a pastor’s eye for sacred spaces with a historian’s love of detail.
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On the Lady Chapel in Chester Cathedral
by George Becher Blomfield
About the author
Born in Bury St Edmunds in 1801, George Becher Blomfield was educated there and later studied at Cambridge, attending Trinity College and then Christ’s. He went on to become an Anglican clergyman, and his life joined parish work with a strong interest in history and ecclesiastical architecture.
Blomfield is best remembered for writings connected with Chester Cathedral, including On the Lady Chapel in Chester Cathedral and work on the cathedral’s architectural history. These pieces show him as a careful antiquarian writer, interested in how buildings carried the story of worship, craftsmanship, and local memory.
He died in 1885. Although he is not widely known today, his surviving books and pamphlets preserve the kind of close, thoughtful observation that makes nineteenth-century church history and architectural writing so rewarding to explore.