This article looks at a long running controversy over ritual that happened at Manchester Cathedral at the end of the Victorian era. In doing so it advances the historiography by looking at anti-ritualism in both a Northern and a cathedral context. Manchester was a low church diocese that spawned many ‘Protestant’ elements who sought to use the unique governance structures of the cathedral to attack the innovations of the High Church clergy. These ‘Protestants’ believed in a reformed Church created during the Early Modern period, and saw developments at the cathedral as indicative of Catholic threats to it. This belief was further fuelled by sectarian tension between Catholics and Protestants in Manchester. The dispute only ended when the Government imposed both a bishop and a dean who were from the Evangelical party of the Church, showing the impact that individuals could have on disputes over ritual.

这篇文章着眼于维多利亚时代末期发生在曼彻斯特大教堂的关于仪式的长期争议。在这样做的过程中，它通过在北方和大教堂背景下观察反仪式主义来推进历史编纂。曼彻斯特是一个低级教会教区，产生了许多“新教”分子，他们试图利用大教堂独特的治理结构来攻击高级教会神职人员的创新。这些“新教徒”相信在近代早期建立的经过改革的教会，并将大教堂的发展视为天主教对其威胁的表现。曼彻斯特天主教徒和新教徒之间的宗派紧张进一步加剧了这种信念。直到政府强加一名来自教会福音派的主教和一名院长时，争端才结束，