This Quest is to visit England's post-Medieval Anglican cathedrals. 18 of them were built in post-Medieval times. Four more were built as abbeys or parish churches in medieval times, then promoted to cathedrals relatively recently. We feel that, architecture aside, these four have more in common with post-Medieval cathedrals than with their contemporaries, so we have included them in this Quest.
It is fairly unrewarding. We expect that hardly anyone will complete this Quest. According to Simon Jenkins's ranking, it has no Five Star cathedrals and only one Four Star which is St Paul's in London. There are probably 100 churches in England that have more interest than the rest of the cathedrals on this list.
Still, they are cathedrals. They all have a cathedra. They are all open every day. They nearly all have a top quality organ, choir and bells, some beautiful modern windows, guided tours, Visitor Centre, espresso machine, food and toilets. We found that most of them had at least one exceptional feature that made the trip worthwhile. This is briefly what interested us:
Most of the other post-Medieval English cathedrals are in city centres where, irony of ironies, they are surrounded by collapsing retail empires that had previously threatened their existence. Now they are becoming the focus of urban regeneration schemes because they are the only city centre buildings that are likely to survive beyond the middle of this century.
Your reward for completing this Quest is the title Post-Medieval Cathedral Master Explorer. There is an intermediate rank for visiting 10 cathedrals.