Slaada Cathedral

### About

Slaada cathedral is a cathedral in Slaada in Barduro. It is dedicated to the holy trinity.

## Slaada Cathedral

### History

* 1286-Slaada is founded by people from Magnuskerk.
* 1290- The first church is built.   1319-Work begins on the Slaada cathedral.
* 1324-The cathedral's original chancel completed
* 1352-Aisles are added to the chancel
* 1360- The east aisle of the chancel is added.
* 1362- Transepts are added
* 1370-The cathedral is completed
* 1406- The cathedral is expanded. The roof is made higher and the towers are given a fourth story. The current chapter house is also added.
* 1434-St Marys chapel is built by Jaionnis Kaanas.
* 1455- The holy cross aisle is added to the cathedral.

### Architecture

#### Western Towers

The cathedral has two towers at the west front. They have four stories, the fourth being added in 1406. Like at Barduro cathedral, The northwest tower is one of the two main cathedral entrances. Access to the upper stories is through the southwest tower. On the third story, there are two corridors, one of which leads to the central tower.

#### Central Tower

The central tower is accessed through a corridor above the nave. The tower has two floors with wooden ceilings.

#### Nave and aisles

The nave is the same length as Barduro cathedral, with four sections of the aisles. It has the longest Barduroese-style wooden ceiling, at 43 blocks long. The font is in the north aisle, beside a piscina in the wall. Against the north aisle walls, there are also seats, a rare feature in Barduroese cathedrals, although St michaels church in Snevik, also a brick church from the fourteenth century also has them. The south aisle has an extra aisle, called the holy cross aisle, added in 1455, making it the most recent addition to the cathedral, apart from the porch tower against the aisle, which was added in 1456. It has two stories. The other structure against the holy cross aisle is St Marys chapel, added in 1434. The holy cross aisle is visable from the outside by small gables, compared to St michaels church in Snevik, which are built the same as the other aisles. There is a chapel in the aisle called the holy cross aisle.

#### Transepts

The transepts are identical, apart from the south transept, which contains a doorway and a small structure containing a spiral staircase leading to the triforium and the crypt. They are both chapels, the north being the candlemakers' chapel, containing tombs of the candlemakers of Slaada, where mass would be said for their souls. The other chapel is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

#### The chancel and Chapter-house

The chancel contains choir stalls, similar to those in St Marys chapel in Barduro cathedral around the high altar. In the east aisle is the tomb of the peeing man. In the chapter house, the meeting place of the cathedral canons, are three sedilia on the east wall. The chapter house also has unusually high 3-block-wide windows.

#### The crypt

The crypt is accessed through the south transept. On the staircase down is a small arched room, which was used as storage. Down the staircase is the first crypt room below the south transept. It was once used to give alms, and was linked to St Marys almshouse in Slaada, which was owned by the cathedral. The next room is the chapel of St Mary and St Anne. The next part is the lower church, dedicated to St Magnus and St Olaf. It has many grave slabs on the floor and the third one from the altar belongs to Segmond na-Vhaacht. The room under the north transept was the burial vault of the Polsen family of Slaada castle.