Chester Cathedral lists Richard Lenginour among its architects. Thomas Harrison and George Gilbert Scott worked on it later. The article names no client, but Dean John Saul Howson commissioned the Victorian restoration. The infobox gives Lenginour as 1272 to 1314, while the text says the choir was built from 1283 to 1315 and the present building dates from about 1283 to 1537.
The article describes Norman to Perpendicular styles, Romanesque and Gothic. It is built of Keuper Sandstone. It is 355 feet (108 m) long, and the central tower is 127 feet (39 m).
The monastery was dissolved in 1538, and the church became a cathedral in 1541. Scott's extensive restoration ran from 1868 to 1876, and the Addleshaw Tower was built from 1973 to 1975. It is a Church of England cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Chester, with daily services, concerts and exhibitions. The article gives no hours.
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