Talk:List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom

Unreferenced and unwieldy
Although someone has spent lots of time and effort on this article, it is effectively useless. There are so many errors and omissions that the best thing to do is to WP:Blow it up and start over. For a start, what is a cathedral? I'm fairly sure that many people had no idea that Glasbury even had bishops (Hint: the last one died in 1055, not c. 1050, according to this article) and although learning about the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall was interesting, I'm fairly certain that the concept of "a cathedral" didn't even exist in the 7th century AD. Or maybe I will add some columns detailing the number of bells and their founders and make the table even more unreadable and unwieldy. Or the dimensions of the crypt. Or the numbers of disgraced bishops, starting with Peter Ball and Frederick Samuel Willoughby. How much pointless information do you need? What about the length of the nave (minus chancel) of Ramsbury cathedral, you ask? Well, since the last Bishop of Ramsbury transferred his see to Old Sarum—(how many manuals in that cathedral organ? you may well ask)—in 1075 and the parish church wasn't begun until the 13th century, you will wait until Doomsday to find out.

How about getting some fairly basic things right? St. Paul's Cathedral wasn't finished in 1675, that's when work began. Does anyone care about the length of the chancel of every cathedral in the UK, including the Archbishop Amigo Jubilee Hall? – Oh wait, it's not a cathedral and never was, it's just a hall. Anyway, there are just four rows which contain this recondite information, and I defy anyone to fill them all in and think "Well, there's a good job done, at least the world will know the length of the chancel of Dommoc cathedral." Hmm, there obviously would be a massive lacuna there, since no-one has the faintest idea where Dommoc was. But...but...but...what about the Cathedral church of St Peter, Rosemarkie? At least there is a broadly hourly bus service to Inverness, allowing you to get away from the dolphins. But you would miss Fortrose Cathedral. Why not add a column for the width of the nave, with or without transepts? In this case, there are no transepts.

Why was St Giles' Cathedral dissolved in 1689? No clue there, however hard you search. Why is the Church of our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory in the list at all? Can anyone point me in the direction of the Bishop of the ex-Royal Bavarian Chapel? Normally I would fix the two Glasgow Cathedrals to point to Glasgow Cathedral and Glasgow Cathedral, but it would be a waste of time since No refs applies. That's slightly inaccurate, but just in case you think that the Cathedral of Abercorn hasn't been dissolved, at least you know where it might have been ("close to the present day church"), and that the only ever Bishop of the Northumbrian see of the Picts had his seat there, and that the "one charter attributed to him is "a clear forgery". At least that's better than Ieuan of Glasbury, who was bishop for one night only, if Giraldus Cambrensis is to be believed. MinorProphet (talk) 03:35, 11 June 2020 (UTC)