Sheffield Cathedral and Coronavirus (COVID-19)

We are updating this page regularly to reflect the latest guidelines and safety measures recommended by the Government and Public Health England.

The Cathedral is open to visitors every day.

If you wish to attend a Sunday service, you must book in advance. You can book by calling our booking line on 0114 263 6075 from 10am to 4pm Monday-Friday.

 Guidelines

As you would expect, we have received very detailed guidance from the Church of England for public worship. This draws on the complex legal stipulations set by the Government. We are finding that the regulations are changing from day to day. This can make planning quite difficult as we must respond swiftly to new requirements. 

All of this aims at keeping everyone as safe as possible during worship.

Please note that you can no longer attend Sunday services without booking in advance. This is to ensure compliance with the latest Government regulations. You can learn more about how to book here.

Please read this guidance before you come to a service, and note particularly, the requirement to register your personal information as you come into the Cathedral for worship.

•  As you come into the Cathedral to attend worship, we are required to gather personal information about you — your name and some contact details. This is to ensure that we can comply with the Government Track and Trace programme. Your details will be stored safely on paper and destroyed after 21 days. 

• The number of worshippers in the Cathedral will initially be strictly limited. This unfortunately means that we cannot admit anyone who has not booked their place in advance.

• You will, as usual, come into the Cathedral through the Grand Entrance, but you will leave through the Parker Transept. This one-way flow in public buildings is being encouraged by the Government.

• You will find hand sanitiser at the entrance to the Cathedral and at strategic points around the building. Please use this when you arrive and when you leave the Cathedral.

• As usual, we will produce service sheets for Sunday worship (which will still be sent out to you by post or email, like this newsletter). Service sheets will now be put out on the pews, not handed to you as you arrive. You are particularly requested to take the service sheets away with you, as this is safer for Cathedral staff.

• We will not be serving refreshments after the Cathedral Eucharist. We will be asking members of the congregation to leave the Cathedral immediately after worship, and not to wait to greet friends in the building.

• We will not take a collection during the service. You are asked to put your gift into a collection box before or after the service, or to give through your mobile phone or your bank.

• During Coronavirus we will follow the pre-Reformation practice in the Cathedral of not sharing the chalice. The President of the Eucharist alone receives from the cup, as a representative of all the faithful.

Opening Hours

Monday: 9am - 3pm
Tuesday: 9am - 3pm
Wednesday: 9am - 3pm
Thursday: 9am - 3pm
Friday: 9am - 3pm
Saturday: 9am - 3pm
Sunday: 11:30am - 3pm*

*Cathedral Eucharist begins at 10:30am every Sunday. The Cathedral will be open for private prayer and visitors after the service.

The Cathedral will continue to offer digital services and an overview of these can be found here on our website.

We will continue to offer live streamed night prayer every Tuesday and Thursday at 9pm on Facebook. We are also live streaming the Sunday Eucharist on Facebook at 10:30am from the Nave.

Keep us, good Lord,

under the shadow of your mercy

in this time of uncertainty and distress.

Sustain and support the anxious and fearful,

and lift up all who are brought low;

that we may rejoice in your comfort

knowing that nothing can separate us from your love

in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amen