We are pleased to welcome organised group visits to the Cathedral and can provide a free guided tour if desired. Please do let us know in advance if you are planning a group visit and we can make the necessary arrangements for you.
You are always welcome in the Cathedral, whether for worship or just to look around, learn more about the history, or perhaps simply to enjoy some quiet time on your own.
The Cathedral is open daily from 9am to 6pm.
We are open all year round, though opening hours may vary slightly on Bank Holidays and Holy Days.
Rachel Franklin was born in London and studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Royal College of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore. A distinguished concert and jazz pianist, Rachel is now based in Maryland, USA, where she is Music Scholar in Residence with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She has given recitals in a number of international venues, including the Carnegie Hall, New York, the Jordan Hall, Boston, and the Wigmore Hall, London, and she has broadcast widely in the USA, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
We are delighted that Rachel’s recital on Saturday 9 May will be the inaugural concert on the Challen Piano, the gift of the Isle of Man Arts Council, which came to the cathedral in 2025 from its previous home at the Erin Arts Centre.
Rachel’s programme will include music by Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Kurt Weill and Duke Ellington.
Admission is free. The audience is invited to make donations towards the cathedral’s music programme.
Seventeen conceptual gardens will be developed, (12 telling the story of our Island and how Christianity has impinged on it and 5 with special themes). Teaching packs will be created also for the Island's schools.